Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Dave Mitchell<davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:46:43AM -0700, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
>> perl 5.10.0 dies if -C occurs on the #! line. This was to avoid the
>> problem of the options being present but not doing anything (see
>> #34087). But this breaks many existing programs that were relying on
>> the kernel to read the first line and pass the switch to perl.
>>
>> The attached patch changes perl to die only when the #! switch differs
>> from the command line switch.
>>
>> Since this is a 5.10 regression, is there any chance it could make its
>> way into 5.10.1?
>
> Since the only side-effect is to sometimes not croak when it formerly
> would have done, I decided it was safe enough for 5.10.1.

Unless I'm misreading this smoke report:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/2009/07/msg71587.html

something may have broken on Windows related to this.  I don't have a
Windows build system to sort out what.

• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Father Chrysostomos
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Father Chrysostomos
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Dave Mitchell
• [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Father Chrysostomos
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Craig A. Berry
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Nicholas Clark
• RE: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Jan Dubois
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #67880] #!perl -CS again by Father Chrysostomos