Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Now I understand, thanks strace. ghc -v tries to execute "time
> gcc ...", but perl does not pass the command line to sh if it does
> not contain shell metacharacters, tries to interpret it itself,
> and tries to execute a program named time which does not exist.
> [...]
Well, "time" is a builtin in bash and {,t}csh, but not in {,z,k}sh.
The same holds for e.g. kill, printf, test, ... I don't know much
about Perl's innards, but you should have equivalent standalone
programs in {,/usr}/bin, at least most Linux distributions, HP-UX,
etc. do.
Cheers,
Sven
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