Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Installation Enhancement Message-ID: <9|KH_-@rpi.edu> Date: 6 Jan 90 05:10:55 GMT References: <129887@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <129933@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 17 In <129933@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> anantha%ravi@Sun.COM (Anantha Srirama) writes: > This automatically assumes that I have write permissions in /usr/bin > directory. This may not always be the case. I still say that the > Configure should set it up. We (myself and mysterious other third parties I am invoking to support this position) disagree. It is an unnecessary editing step because the scripts can still be tested no matter what the #! line says, or even if it didn't exist. The test suite already provides a way to run all the tests together as they are, with the #! test set as /usr/bin/perl but with no perl there. If you want to run them seperately use perl as the command rather than the script itself. That's all the #! cookie ends up doing anyway. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))