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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Alan Thew, D. J. Bernstein, Greg A. Woods
CC: exim-users, Mark Murray
Old-Topics: Re: perl location
Subject: Re: several messages
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Alan Thew wrote:

> My perl is not in /usr/bin ... (since it's not supplied by Sun :-))


Neither is ours, but /usr/bin points to it.

On 13 Sep 1996, D. J. Bernstein wrote:

> I used to have this problem. The solution is to supply foo.sh instead of
> foo.


Yes, I do this for some of the scripts. I was stupid enough not to do it
for *all* of them - the two that aren't are pure Perl scripts, which
have raised this problem. When I've got nothing better to do :-) I may
convert them to be the same as the rest.

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Everything in the source tree should be treated as source so that some
> procedure can be applied to it to "build" it, and then another procedure
> to "install" the resulting product.


Yes. I've learned the hard way. (Mind you, the two scripts in question
are in the "util" directory, not in the source tree.)

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