[Surfraw-devel] surfraw-update-path bug

[Nils Gillmann]

Jude DaShiell transcribed 1.2K bytes:
> This probably effects the entire surfraw package but was found here on
> panix.com when I tried to use surfraw-update-path and got perl bad
> interpreter back as an error.  One of the system administrators wrote me
> and let me know surfraw-update-path didn't have #!/usr/bin/env perl as its
> first line which is why I got the bad interpreter error back.  Not all
> systems have perl in /usr/bin and panix.com is one of them.
> On my home system I tried updating the binary using env and env apparently
> couldn't find perl for whatever reason.  I did include the -w switch after
> surfraw-update-path too.
> I am curious, could a perl program be written such that if /usr/bin/perl
> isn't found it tries /usr/bin/env perl before giving up?

Probably. What we do in Guix though, is to either wrap applications or
change the #! for perl to a reliable location in our system. I think I
had a dormant patch fixing this absolutism in surfraw. I should find
and rework it.