Re: Explicit interpreter paths considered harmful

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

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> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:02:02 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: remove #!/usr/bin/perl in favor of more 
> portable...
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> Rather than putting #!/usr/bin/perl on the first line,
> start with a variant of what's recommended by "man perlrun" that
> invokes the first "perl" program from your shell's search path.
> * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: Replace #!... as above.
> Add a "Local Variables" perl mode setting.
> Prompted by a patch from Ludovic Courtès.
> Improved by Eric Blake.

Works like a charm on NixOS, both with ./gitlog-to-changelog and “perl
gitlog-to-changelog”, thanks!

> ---
>  ChangeLog                     |   11 +++++++++++
>  build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog |    7 +++++--
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

While you’re at it, can you update the other scripts under ‘build-aux’
that use /usr/bin/perl?

Thanks,
Ludo’.