X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:50:36 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Kevin T Cella cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: activestate perl on cygwin In-Reply-To: <00d701c73646$7d628e10$7827aa30$@rr.com> Message-ID: References: <000301c733a2$28c29db0$7a47d910$@rr.com> <006901c73528$574b11d0$05e13570$@rr.com> <009701c7357f$4b05f9b0$e111ed10$@rr.com> <00af01c735f2$43713980$ca53ac80$@rr.com> <00d701c73646$7d628e10$7827aa30$@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 Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Kevin T Cella wrote: > > Although this is thorough off topic, perhaps you can explain it better > > to me as I don't use ActiveState therefore I don't see what you are > > claiming. Exactly which "full path" is expanded to "what" and passed to > > (guess) ActiveState Perl interpreter as, again, what? Is it $0 that you > > speak of that may be a Cygwin path? I'm confused however if it is $0 > > then why couldn't that also be handled in the Perl script? > > The error is as follows: > > [~] $ myscript.pl > Can't open perl script "/home/kcella/bin/myscript.pl": No such file or > directory > > [~] $ ls -l /home/kcella/bin/myscript.pl > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kcella None 651 Jan 12 07:33 /home/kcella/bin/myscript.pl That particular case is handled by the wrapper script I posted. Note that you *don't* need to use the wrapper script to invoke perl on the command line -- only in the #! (shebang) line of your script file. 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/