[Rant-cafe] Ubuntu / Mac OS X difference

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:08 +0200, Stefan Lang wrote:

> Compare it to ENV["PATH"] in irb, and also try
> 
>     require "rant/rantlib"
>     Rant::Env.find_bin "epstopdf"  # returns full path if found

Path and everything are OK.  I have, however, found an angle on the
problem...

It looks like it might be that this might be some shoddy porting by
teTeX.  epsftopdf is a Perl script -- sad but... :-) The Ubuntu version
starts with:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

and everything seems fine.  However the Mac OS X version starts:

eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl
-S $0 $argv:q'
  if 0;

and fails to run when executed by Ruby via it's system functions.

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Russel.
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