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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:10:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
To: John Pollock <jpollock AT curl DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- John Pollock <jpollock AT curl DOT com> wrote:
> There seems to be a problem in the new sh (1.1.x).  With the old sh, we were
> able to invoke perl scripts directly:
> 
> VINCENTE$ sh
> $ cd
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/m
> $ ./make-version-info.pl
> make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
> 
> But the new sh doesn't seem to accept direct invocations in this style:
> 
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/m
> $ ./make-version-info.pl
> ./make-version-info.pl: not found
> 
> This would be OK if we could invoke perl directly and then use the script as
> an argument, and we can do this when the perl script is invoked with a
> DOS-style path:
> 
> $ perl m:\make-version-info.pl
> make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
> 
> but if you use a Unix style path, it doesn't work:
> 
> $ perl /m/make-version-info.pl
> Can't open perl script "/m/make-version-info.pl": No such file or directory
> 
> Thoughts?

What does the first line of make-version-info.pl look like?  Functionality
shouldn't have changed.

Since you're using a non-Cygwin perl it's not going to understand `perl
/m/foo.pl', you'll have to use `perl m:/foo.pl' and if that doesn't work `perl
m:\\foo.pl' or `perl "m:\foo.pl"' should.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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