Re: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999

["H. Peter Anvin" <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 
> >I don't support #! because it puts absolute pathnames
> >inside scripts.
> 
> This is really important:
> 
>         #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> 
> may not work because perl is not present (in this case we may say
> that the 'loader' os mising).
> It may also fail because perl is in /opt/local/bin/perl
> 
> It may be a good idea to standardize paths for interpreters.
> This seems to be a good idea because more and more Linux guys
> are putting #!/bin/bash into shell scripts.
> 
> Sot there should be an aggreement about which interpreters
> may be used at all (because they are part of a standard system)
> and where they need to be located.
> 

Another option is to leave it to the system installers' disgression; if
so it should be coded that the string specified in the #! should be the
one returned by the "which" command.

        -hpa