Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/02/22/03:55:20
hammond AT csc DOT albany DOT edu (William F. Hammond) writes:
> I don't understand why you want to use /usr/bin/env
> under Cygwin.
The reason is portability. I have written hundreds of
Perl utilities which I find extremely useful and I
want them to run smoothly both on UNIX and cygwin.
I really hesitate to maintain one set of utilities for
cygwin, one for Solaris, one for HP-UX, etc.
> Not everything that makes sense under *ix makes sense
> for Cygwin.
I know, but cygwin respects shebang lines (e.g., a text
file in the path starting with the line "#!/bin/gawk"
will really be run by gawk), so I'm sure there is a way
to get this working right. I just haven't found it yet.
> Presumably one runs Cygwin because one does not want
> to run Linux so that one can have simultaneous single
> platform access to Win* things and Gnu things familiar
> in *ix contexts.
Yep.
> That said, doesn't it then make sense to use a straight
> Win* build for perl so that perl can be used in Win*
> mode?
I have tried, and I found out that a Win* build of Perl
doesn't integrate well with cygwin.
> Granted that -- and granted the desire to build
> environment outside of the Perl script itself -- one
> may use either a bat file or an sh script, as appropriate
> for the calling context, to create the needed environment.
True, that works, I have tried, but then I need a whole
set of bat files and sh files in addition to the original
Perl scripts and that's what I am trying to avoid. :-)
Thanks for your input!
Peter
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