On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:51:47AM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: > You mean having to dive into almost every perl script (not Linux > developed) and change #!/usr/local/bin/perl to #!/usr/bin/perl
It is unfortunate, but the popular usage (ie, #!/usr/local/bin/perl) is wrong. /usr/bin/perl has always been the cannonical location of perl. The perl Configure script will default to creating a link from wherever you install the binary to /usr/bin. The first edition of the Camel book even recommended doing unpleasant things to the local system administrator if /usr/bin/perl didn't exist; unfortunately this is not in the second edition, for what reason I do not know. I suggest kindly pointing this out to those who start their scripts with #!/usr/local/bin/perl. Andrew