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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl 3.0 and metaconfig
Message-ID: <6972@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 2 Feb 90 18:03:03 GMT
References: <2271@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <6935@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Feb1.163424.1057@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Feb1.163424.1057@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
: How about making sure that Configure doesn't follow PATH to execute a
: command named "try" ?
: I used to have a shell script by that name that executed:
:  /usr/lib/uucp/Uutry -r $*
: and it wasn't immediately obvious why none of the programs that use
: Configure would install.

Lots of people requested that the user's PATH be included in Configure's
PATH.

The solution would be to say ./try to force it to execute the one in the
current directory.

Larry