# stdin => string to feed the stdin
# stderr => redirect stderr to stdout
# args => [ command-line arguments to the perl program ]
+# verbose => print the command line
my $is_mswin = $^O eq 'MSWin32';
my $is_netware = $^O eq 'NetWare';
my $is_macos = $^O eq 'MacOS';
my $is_vms = $^O eq 'VMS';
+sub _quote_args {
+ my ($runperl, $args) = @_;
+
+ foreach (@$args) {
+ # In VMS protect with doublequotes because otherwise
+ # DCL will lowercase -- unless already doublequoted.
+ $_ = q(").$_.q(") if $is_vms && !/^\"/;
+ $$runperl .= ' ' . $_;
+ }
+}
+
sub runperl {
my %args = @_;
my $runperl = $^X;
if (defined $args{switches}) {
- $runperl .= ' ' . join ' ', map qq("$_"), @{ $args{switches} };
+ _quote_args(\$runperl, $args{switches});
}
unless (defined $args{nolib}) {
if ($is_macos && $args{stderr}) {
- $runperl .= ' -I::lib -MMac::err=unix';
+ $runperl .= ' -I::lib';
+ # Use UNIX style error message instead of MPW style.
+ $runperl .= ' -MMac::err=unix' if $args{stderr};
}
else {
- $runperl .= ' "-I../lib"';
+ $runperl .= ' "-I../lib"'; # doublequotes because of VMS
}
}
if (defined $args{prog}) {
}
}
if (defined $args{args}) {
- $runperl .= ' ' . join ' ', map qq("$_"), @{ $args{args} };
+ _quote_args(\$runperl, $args{args});
+ }
+ $runperl .= ' 2>&1' if $args{stderr} && !$is_macos;
+ $runperl .= " \xB3 Dev:Null" if !$args{stderr} && $is_macos;
+ if ($args{verbose}) {
+ my $runperldisplay = $runperl;
+ $runperldisplay =~ s/\n/\n\#/g;
+ print "# $runperldisplay\n";
}
- $runperl .= ' 2>&1' if $args{stderr} && !$is_macos;
- $runperl .= " \xB3 Dev:Null" if !defined $args{stderr} && $is_macos;
my $result = `$runperl`;
$result =~ s/\n\n/\n/ if $is_vms; # XXX pipes sometimes double these
return $result;