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.Thread Previous | Thread Next