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Re: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
- To: John Pollock <jpollock at curl dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:10:47 -0700 (PDT)
--- John Pollock <jpollock@curl.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a problem in the new sh (1.1.x). With the old sh, we were
> able to invoke perl scripts directly:
>
> VINCENTE$ sh
> $ cd
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/m
> $ ./make-version-info.pl
> make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
>
> But the new sh doesn't seem to accept direct invocations in this style:
>
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/m
> $ ./make-version-info.pl
> ./make-version-info.pl: not found
>
> This would be OK if we could invoke perl directly and then use the script as
> an argument, and we can do this when the perl script is invoked with a
> DOS-style path:
>
> $ perl m:\make-version-info.pl
> make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
>
> but if you use a Unix style path, it doesn't work:
>
> $ perl /m/make-version-info.pl
> Can't open perl script "/m/make-version-info.pl": No such file or directory
>
> Thoughts?
What does the first line of make-version-info.pl look like? Functionality
shouldn't have changed.
Since you're using a non-Cygwin perl it's not going to understand `perl
/m/foo.pl', you'll have to use `perl m:/foo.pl' and if that doesn't work `perl
m:\\foo.pl' or `perl "m:\foo.pl"' should.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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