Am 14.06.2011 um 08:50 schrieb Jean-Pierre Chrétien: > Stephan Witt <st.witt <at> gmx.net> writes: > >> >> That's why it's crucial to have a so-called "shebang" at start of a script. >> If it's missing the script gets executed by the login shell. For scripts >> installed and used system-wide this is not good. >> >> I have the #! line at start of all of my own scripts. > > Sure, you can do this as you know where the binaries are. > I did the same for years for a system-wide installation > that I had full control on. > > AFAIR, the first line in epstopdf (and in all the perl scripts in the > latex distribution binaries directory) tries to avoid errors when the perl > binary is not in the standard place (/usr/bin/perl) but e.g. in the local > directories (/usr/local/bin/perl). > > The shell command in the first line has a syntax which sould be interpreted > correctly by any flavour of the shell spawned to execute the calling command.
I didn't read the epstopdf code. Now I think you're right. The shell flavor shouldn't be a problem. Stephan
