"Craig A. Berry" <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> writes: > You can't spell shebang without the "sh". The .PL files for the > utilities are primarily to generate shebang emulation on non-Unix > systems. Yes, on unixy systems, what they do will reduce to just > editing the shebang line, but on non-Unix systems they prepend the value > of $Config{startperl}, which contains a native command to invoke perl > and pass along its parameters, and then they add a suffix to the script > name so the script will be recognized as a command by the command > processor (.bat on Windows, .com on VMS). Ah! Thank you. I hadn't understood that. I'll re-add the .PL wrappers (with better documentation of why they're required) directly in podlators and put out a new release. Then hopefully core can just use the same wrappers that come with the podlators CPAN distribution. -- Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous