From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:36:59 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 319 ************************************************** Wednesday 04 September 2002 Number 319 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: FHS : Stefan Neis 2 Re: FHS : Lyn St George" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:58:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Neis Subject: Re: FHS On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Dave and Natalie wrote: > This would mean that any script that is distributated should be > considered broken if it does not point to the standard location or just > name the shell. eg #!perl Yes, that's the easy part. But you might not want to rely on the distribution only. You'd like to be able to use the newest cool perl-script from www.somewhere-interesting.some-domain for whatever reason with as few pain as possible. So if the "standard" of those scripts is /usr/local/bin/perl let's go for that and "fix" the distribution accordingly. Regards, Stefan P.S.: Now I don't know whether or not /usr/local/bin/perl is usually used in such scripts... -- Micro$oft is not an answer. It is a question. The answer is 'no'. **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 17:06:54 +0000 From: "Lyn St George" Subject: Re: FHS On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:58:58 +0200 (CEST), Stefan Neis wrote: > >P.S.: Now I don't know whether or not /usr/local/bin/perl is usually > used in such scripts... When you're installing perl on Linux, and you install it into /usr/bin/perl, it always asks you if you want to symlink this to /usr/local/bin/perl. The implication here is that Linux has 2 standard locations 8). On UnixOS/2 we could simply install the perl.exe alone into both locations, leaving the rest of the perl tree in /usr/lib/perl5 - Cheers Lyn St George +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + http://www.zolotek.net .. eCommerce hosting, consulting + http://www.os2docs.org .. some 'How To' stuff ... +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------