Item9333: both configure installer and pseudo-install should automatically localise the perl shebang

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Enhancement	New	Engine	Configure, Install, PseudoInstall

and what that shebang should look like should probly be a cfg value.

that way, stuff just works.

-- SvenDowideit - 16 Jul 2010

this would also simplify changing your perl to debugperl, adding profilling such as NYTProf, or anything else..

-- SvenDowideit - 16 Jul 2010

This is partly addressed. Configure uses Foswiki::Configure::Util::rewriteShebang to set the perl shebang for any extension scripts. It sets the shebang to the shebang used by bin/configure. It could use the perl location but this is auto dereferenced from a symlink to the installed version of perl, which is probably not wanted.

-- GeorgeClark - 02 Dec 2010

For pseudo-install, if it updates the shebang in a symlink environment, then it's modifying a file that might be inadvertently checked in. This should probably only be done when doing a "copy" type installation rather than symlink.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Apr 2011