61832 - xmlterm: xmlterm scripts use fixed path to perl

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XML, defect, P3)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

mozilla/extensions/xmlterm/scripts/xls & co. do use a fixed path to the perl
interpreter (like #!/usr/bin/perl). Unfortunately on some systems perl is only
available in /usr/local/bin/perl or in other locations - which causes that
xls&co. do not work on such platforms.

(Off-topic: Isn't there a BugZilla component for XmlTerm ?)

Comment 1

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Reassigning to xmlterm module owner.

Comment 2

[R. Saravanan]

I'm aware of the problem, but it is not specific to xmlterm. It is the problem
of running scripts under Unix, where there is no registry as in Windows. I'm not
aware of any general solution to the problem. xls & co are simply perl scripts
executed by whatever Unix shell you are running. Do you have any suggested
solutions? Would changing the first line of xls & co to
#!/bin/env perl
improve things?

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

Nice solution (never saw this before)...
-- snip --
#!/bin/env perl
-- snip --
would work (but now my desktop does not recognize these scripts as perl-scrips
anymore... ;-( ).

I think we could either use this as a workaround or tell those people to link
/usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl (does anyone know if that works without
problems (perl libs/modules not found etc.) ?).

Best solution would be to add this to "configure" and let the Makefile "build"
the scripts which the correct location of the "perl" binary...

Comment 4

[R. Saravanan]

Marking bug as wontfix as there is no easy workaround for the lack of a
centralized registry on Unix.