At some point, D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > | On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:25:20PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > | ... > | > o The #! line should look something like > | > #!/usr/bin/deb_py_ver 1.5.2 - > | > | I can't get things like this to work. It seems one parameter at > | most is allowed there. > > Huh? The idea was that there would be a script/program named > deb_py_ver. It would take 2 command-line arguments and determine > which python binary should be used. It would then exec that python on > the script (which, IIRC, is on stdin of deb_py_ver). This would allow > having a single program, rather than an exponentially growing number > of symlinks. Otherwise the symlink idea is the simplest > implementation, except for handling which package to put each link in. >
That's not the problem -- the problem is that the command specified in the #! is passed the rest of the line as _one_ argument (at least on Linux). That's why you can't do, for instance, #!/usr/bin/env python -O as the first line. I suppose you could split the argument on spaces -- although I'm not sure if other Unices (the Hurd, anyone?) pass the rest of the line or just the first argument. Another alternative would be #!/usr/bin/deb_py_ver 1.5.2- and #!/usr/bin/deb_py_ver 1.5.2-2.1.1 That's one argument. -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke |[EMAIL PROTECTED]