X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:25:46 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Andrew DeFaria cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: activestate perl on cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1168360081.45a3c291af993@easymail-old.hol.gr> <45A3C4D6.F4A71EC7@dessent.net> <31b7d2790701090912t71c9c3f6v38f4a1141619ad24@mail.gmail.com> <003001c73461$788a7380$699f5a80$@rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I'm not sure I agree with your script's premise which states in the > comment "Cygwin passes 'cygwin style' paths to the program in the #! > statement". I don't believe that is true. Cygwin passes what you specify > at the command line. That part is actually correct. Save the following two files, add the directory where you saved test_script.wr to $PATH, and then invoke it by name to see what I mean. ----------- BEGIN /usr/local/bin/wraptest ----------- #!/bin/sh echo "$@" ------------ END /usr/local/bin/wraptest ------------ --------------- BEGIN test_script.wr ---------------- #!/usr/local/bin/wraptest Doesn't matter what you put here... ---------------- END test_script.wr ----------------- FWIW, for the past few years I've been using the following script to allow Windows programs in the shebang (#!) line: ------------- BEGIN /usr/local/bin/wrap ------------- #!/bin/sh pname="$1" fname="`cygpath -wi "$2"`" shift 2 && exec "$pname" "$fname" "$@" -------------- END /usr/local/bin/wrap -------------- A typical use would be as follows: #!/usr/local/bin/wrap /cygdrive/c/perl/perl which invokes ActiveState Perl with Win32 path to the current script and with the rest of the arguments intact. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/