Subject: Re: Anyone got latex2html to work on cygwin?? Fatal (use l2hconf): l2hconf.pm
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:21:38 -0800

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:51:51PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, bill BW wrote:
> Nor should it.  The l2hconf.pm is not executed via the shell, but via the
> "use()" function, which ignores the shebang line altogether.  FWIW, I
> think the invalid shebang is there exactly to prevent running that file
> via the shell (unless your system has perl in the root directory).
> 
> > more information:
> >
> > $ which perl
> > /usr/bin/perl
> >
> > $ perl --version
> > This is perl, v5.8.5 built for
> > cygwin-thread-multi-64int
> >
> > Why does it say '64int' there? my machine is
> > 32 bit P4.
> 
> This means it supports 64-bit functions, that's all.

Means perl was built to use 64 bit signed and unsigned integer types.
That string is supposed to contain the most common build options that
produce binary incompatibility between one perl build and another.

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