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Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
- From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl at curl dot com>
- To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 13 Sep 2002 11:52:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
- References: <20020913154239.90595.qmail@web21002.mail.yahoo.com>
Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com> writes:
> Your best bet is to move the Cygwin perl.exe to a new directory which
> isn't in PATH. Then you can make a wrapper script called "perl",
> which resides in bin, that parses the arguments passed to it. I
> haven't used ActiveState myself, but I'm sure there are consistant
> differences between the two.
Nothing you could easily detect by a heuristic, I am afraid. The
biggest difference is probably that ActiveState does not know about
Cygwin paths (and Cygwin does not supply the Win32 module (?)). So
"/foo" has meaning to each; it just means something different...
Heuristics are often a poor design. The author of the Perl code knows
which version she wants; she should have a way to specify it.
"perl" vs. "perl.exe" is not a perfect solution, but it is at least as
good as any of the others I have seen.
- Pat
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