Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:27:03 -1000 From: parv@pair.com To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> Subject: Re: perl links Message-ID: <20100410162703.GA1635@holstein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <86zl1btumw.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <4BBFB4E8.9010304@comclark.com> <hppk7i$1vf$1@dough.gmane.org> <86zl1btumw.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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in message <86zl1btumw.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>, wrote Randal L. Schwartz thusly... > > >>>>> "Anton" == Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> writes: > > > Anton> most perl scripts begins with > > Anton> #!/usr/bin/perl > > Anton> this is common convention (also outside *BSD world) > > In fact, it's the recommendation from the original Camel book in 1990 > (which I wrote, but the kids forget that :) that no matter where you > install Perl, you always link/symlink /usr/bin/perl so that scripts can > safely use shebang. So, you are the guilty one. By that logic, every software should assume some location, so that people can have fun with link farm maintainance. - parv --
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