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Re: texinfo-5.9.90 pretest available


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: texinfo-5.9.90 pretest available
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:34:18 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:39:09PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 2 tests in tp/tests fail:
> 
>      FAIL: t/stdout.sh
>      FAIL: t/stdout_split.sh
> 
> This is because texi2any.pl uses "#! /usr/bin/env perl", which the
> version of Bash I use doesn't grok.  Is this really needed? other
> scripts that are installed by "make install" use just "/bin/perl".

It is not exactly because texi2any.pl uses "#! /usr/bin/env perl",
texi2any.pl need to use something that works in most cases to be
launchable without being configured, and "#! /usr/bin/env perl" is the
best for that case.  So keeping "#! /usr/bin/env perl" in texi2any.pl is
best, even though, if it doesn't work on windows, it is a problem, but I
belive the problem should be solved by making "#! /usr/bin/env perl"
work, as we have no better way.

The real but is that texi2any.pl should never be called directly, it
should always be called like ${PERL} texi2any.pl with ${PERL} detected
by configure.  I'll try a fix.

-- 
Pat



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