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Date:      Sat, 8 Jun 2002 00:11:15 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl Makefile
Message-ID:  <20020608001115.B19638@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020607155436.A92213@FreeBSD.ORG>; from jmallett@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:54:36PM -0700
References:  <200206071855.g57Ithx67035@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzphekekc9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020607145445.A91889@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020607155436.A92213@FreeBSD.ORG>

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:54:36PM -0700, J. Mallett wrote:
> 
> People should be using:
> #! /usr/bin/env perl

The problem with this is that it doesn't allow you to put things like
-w and -T on the command line and be portable to systems other than
FreeBSD. This is particularly important for taint checking, because perl
tends to complain if you turn it on too late.

> And setting a 'require' for the perl version they need.

Yes.

Tony.
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