Re: Can I write a transparent shell wrapper to start the correct build of Perl?

What if you go the other way? At the top of your perl scripts put this:

#!/bin/sh

eval '. /etc/host.conf; exec /nfs/perl/5.10/${HOST_PLATFORM}/bin/perl 
+-S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
    if 0;
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Admittedly, it's not as pretty as having all that ugliness hidden away in a separate, single location, but other than that, it may actually work.

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Re^2: Can I write a transparent shell wrapper to start the correct build of Perl? by thparkth (Beadle) on Feb 05, 2008 at 16:41 UTC
Thanks, yes, that's plan B. If there have to be crude shell gubbins going on I would ideally wish that they were invisible to the Perl programmer, if you know what I mean.	[reply]