perl -P path patch
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Robin Barker wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from rmb1@npl.co.uk,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.16 running under perl 5.00392.
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> I can't get perl -P to work.
>
> In particular
> % perl -P t/comp/cpp.aux
> sh: /home/rmb1/local/perl/bin/cppstdin: not found
>
> the make process constructs cppstdin in the src directory
> and would copy that to $installbin
> but both t/comp/cpp.t and the perl binary look for a cppstdin
> executable in $scriptdir.
Thanks for the report. This is a bug. cppstdin belongs in $installbin,
not $scriptdir.
Why? Because cppstdin is architecture-dependent. It depends, in detail,
on the particular compiler required for that architecture. True, we could
rewrite it in portable perl to use all the appropriate Config.pm
variables, but really, why bother? It's a tiny script that is rarely
used, and I don't want to further encourage its use.
Here's a patch. Hmm. It's a bit longer than I first imagined because I
need to use BIN_EXP instead of BIN, and since perl currently doesn't use
BIN_EXP, metaconfig hadn't stuck it in config.h.
Alternatively, we could have put cppstdin in $installarch or something
like that, but we'd better keep it in $bin just in case some-one's been
relying on that.
Ok. Here it is. (Mind you, I haven't yet *tested* this on a machine that
needs cppstdin :-).
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