> usual #!/usr/bin/perl first line,
Not exactly on topic, but FWIW I recommend #!/usr/bin/env perl.
That does not assume any particular Perl location.
Personally I find that preferable to Perl checking in configure scripts,
since then the resulting has a better chance of working on more syste
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 8/15/2009 9:50 AM:
>>> I'm not sure why some invocations work and others fail, but the point is
>>> that update-copyright doesn't work as-is on cygwin 1.5; and it also has
>>> the annoying failure path of either renaming or worse deleting the
>>> ori
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According to Jim Meyering on 8/15/2009 9:50 AM:
>> I'm not sure why some invocations work and others fail, but the point is
>> that update-copyright doesn't work as-is on cygwin 1.5; and it also has
>> the annoying failure path of either renaming or wo
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 8/15/2009 4:53 AM:
>>> For the record, I discovered this because 'perl -ei' fails on cygwin 1.5
>>> [but
>>> works in cygwin 1.7] because of older cygwin's inability to delete in-use
>>> files:
>>
>> That should be easy to detect.
>>
>> Do you mean
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According to Jim Meyering on 8/15/2009 4:53 AM:
>> For the record, I discovered this because 'perl -ei' fails on cygwin 1.5 [but
>> works in cygwin 1.7] because of older cygwin's inability to delete in-use
>> files:
>
> That should be easy to detect.
Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
>> I just noticed a problem. update-copyright is a perl script only intended
> for
>> maintainer use
>
> And we ought to support some form of 'build-aux/update-copyright --help' (and
> also --version), per GNU Coding Standards, before shipping packa
Eric Blake wrote:
> I just noticed a problem. update-copyright is a perl script only intended for
> maintainer use, which is fine, since only maintainers are required to have
> perl
> installed (after all, we already know that maintainers have perl by virtue of
> the fact that they are running a
Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
>
> I just noticed a problem. update-copyright is a perl script only intended
for
> maintainer use
And we ought to support some form of 'build-aux/update-copyright --help' (and
also --version), per GNU Coding Standards, before shipping packages with the
update-c
I just noticed a problem. update-copyright is a perl script only intended for
maintainer use, which is fine, since only maintainers are required to have perl
installed (after all, we already know that maintainers have perl by virtue of
the fact that they are running autoconf). But, as explicit
