Yes, the perl soft link works from the command line. Here's my test case that fails.
<foo.pl> #!/usr/bin/perl
print "Success.\n" </foo.pl>
<Makefile> default: perl foo.pl </Makefile>
#ls -l /usr/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 isaacf Domain U 24 Sep 7 12:44 /usr/bin/perl -> /usr/bin/perl5.8.5.exe
#gmake perl foo.pl gmake: execvp: perl: Permission denied gmake: *** [default] Error 127
#perl foo.pl Success.
You may also need to "rm /usr/bin/perl.exe" before you can "ln -s /usr/bin/perl5.8.5.exe /usr/bin/perl".
IF
Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:34:30 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:51:26PM -0600, Isaac Foraker wrote:
>I have run into a bug when upgrading from 1.5.10 to 1.5.11. I use a >soft-link for /usr/bin/perl to point to the real version of Perl running >on my system. This lets me switch easily between the Native ActiveState >Perl and Cygwin Perl. This used to work fine, but now my 'make' is >failing when running perl. Note: make.exe is renamed to gmake.exe in my >environment to avoid conflicts with Opus make.
>
>#ls -l /usr/bin/perl
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 isaacf Domain U 24 Sep 7 12:44 /usr/bin/perl -> >/usr/bin/perl5.8.5.exe
>
></Makefile>
>default:
> perl foo.pl
></Makefile>
>
>#gmake
>gmake: execvp: perl: Permission denied
WFM, sorry.
Can you run perl from the command line?
cgf
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