-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 2 Sep, Jonathan Markevich wrote about "Re: #!/Perl question" > > On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:04:49AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > >> I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix > >> biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes > >> sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my > >> Debian system Perl was of course put in /usr/bin/perl. So how can I write a > >> Perl script that be executed on a variety of systems (Unix/Linux/DOS)?? > > > > Personally, I would count on /usr/bin/perl. It seems unusual to take such > > an important key to lots of system-based scripts and keep it local. Check > > out this: > > I think(i.e. just my local experience) many of the commercial Unix's put > everything under /usr/local that is not part of the core OS. Unlike > Linux distributions most commercial Unix's don't come with all the apps > pre-packaged. One solution would be to write a makefile that detects the location of the perl binary and then prepends the proper shebang line to the beginning of your perl programs. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN88YXr7M/9WKZLW5AQGmMAP/SjX8U3wyIWTQDZNy1twrlGP20LKq51c7 ayJTppyfV56sps2qdPOh+kclL0FnMqzWCJaISNtwRicYeMLAIb6CGjeQedgV6Vgz NJh3vHDYWnXU14QX3DX60xANOLOmp+3mCER5SvaNcLNFJyyYEXUzJDe3IoUbr6nN +mIVd1UFHF0= =2YGA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
