From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3097 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2009 18:51:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 3088 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2009 18:51:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_73,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hagrid.ecoscentric.com (HELO mail.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:51:33 +0000 Received: from localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E791B3B40036; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:51:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8NB9-0sKc3tH; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:51:29 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4963A830.6090600@eCosCentric.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:51:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Dallaway CC: ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: #! magic for finding Cygwin Tcl shell References: <49639C9C.9040607@dallaway.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <49639C9C.9040607@dallaway.org.uk> OpenPGP: id=A5FB74E6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 John Dallaway wrote: > I was looking at support for UNC file paths in the eCos Configuration > Tool today. The convoluted #! magic we use in our Tcl scripts to find a > Cygwin Tcl shell is getting in the way when calling (eg) heapgen.tcl via > a UNC repository path. This code is only needed to support installations > of Cygwin that are more than 5 years old. > > Rather than increase the complexity of the #! magic still further, I > think it now makes sense to revert to a simple "#! /usr/bin/tclsh" > within our Tcl scripts. However, this would break compatibility with old > Cygwin installations providing only tclsh8*.exe or cygtclsh80.exe. > > Any objections? Yes, it may not be in /usr/bin. I don't mind the cygwin-specific cygpath bits being dropped, but I'd still want it to be found from the PATH by some means. Jifl -- eCosCentric Limited http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos experts Barnwell House, Barnwell Drive, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 1223 245571 Registered in England and Wales: Reg No 4422071. ------["Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere"]------ Opinions==mine