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To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
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From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl AT curl DOT com>
Date: 13 Sep 2002 11:52:04 -0400
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Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com> writes:

> Your best bet is to move the Cygwin perl.exe to a new directory which
> isn't in PATH.  Then you can make a wrapper script called "perl",
> which resides in bin, that parses the arguments passed to it.  I
> haven't used ActiveState myself, but I'm sure there are consistant
> differences between the two.

Nothing you could easily detect by a heuristic, I am afraid.  The
biggest difference is probably that ActiveState does not know about
Cygwin paths (and Cygwin does not supply the Win32 module (?)).  So
"/foo" has meaning to each; it just means something different...

Heuristics are often a poor design.  The author of the Perl code knows
which version she wants; she should have a way to specify it.

"perl" vs. "perl.exe" is not a perfect solution, but it is at least as
good as any of the others I have seen.

 - Pat

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