Re: Script interpreter locations
On Mar 22, 10:56am in "Re: Script interpret", Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo <jake@nodomainname.net> writes:
>
> > Should there be a standard place to put script interpreters (e.g. perl,
> > tcl, python)? There is a thread on the kernel mailing list about a patch
> > to support putting things like:
> >
> > #!perl
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> There is a standard place (for perl, sh, csh, etc.) specified by both
> FSSTND 1.2 and FHS 2.0. perl is /usr/bin/perl.
>
In addition, FHS2.0 in section 4.3 /usr/bin also defines the names
/usr/bin/python, and /usr/bin/tcl (as well as /usr/bin/perl)
to reference the python and tcl interpreters. These can be
symlinks to the physical location.
This is tested in the LSB-FHS test suite.
regards
Andrew
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