cloc: hashbang header has "perl" twice

[Russell VT]

Replying to add the package maintainer, as-per Cygwin's source distribution
files.

This would be something I'd consider installing directly from source,
though it looks like the upstream may not make that *quite* as easily as
one would like... but, I'll take a better look, after I've slept (HaHa).

Cheers -
RVT


On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 3:32 AM Russell VT <russellvt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at the current Cygwin source, the she-bang is actually:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>
>
> ...which means it's going to pick up the first perl interpreter in your
> path.
>
> You can confirm this in the cloc code, itself, as well.
> <https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc/blob/244c1e619c2b9ea3b7be10ebdb23ecd5b6ee1361/cloc>
>
> Please note that, because this is a Perl module, you can likely just
> uninstall the Cygwin package, and then use something like "CPAN install
> cloc" to get the latest version in your perl environment (HIGHLY recommend
> to install this in your local perl modules, under your home directory).
>
> That said, it looks like someone screwed the pooch on the Cygwin
> installer... I installed it via the Cygwin setup utility and have confirmed
> your findings. It *SHOULD* be safe to just manually change the she-bang to
> "env," if you want to use the Cygwin package, directly.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Cheers -
> Russell VT
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 12:36 AM Eyal Rozenberg via Cygwin <
> cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure how bug reporting "etiquette" works here on the list, but -
>> I was sort of expecting an acknowledgement. Or - was I wrong to post my
>> bug report here in the first place?
>>
>> I have another bug (two actually) to report regarding meld, and I want
>> to get that report right and not have it lost in the noise.
>>
>> Eyal
>>
>> On 22/09/2021 17:20, Eyal Rozenberg via Cygwin wrote:
>> > I'm using:
>> >
>> > Package              Version                        Status
>> > cloc                 1.82+20190726+git608f376-1     OK
>> >
>> > updated today. The first line of /usr/bin/cloc is:
>> >
>> > #!/usr/bin/perl perl
>> >
>> > while it should just be:
>> >
>> > #!/usr/bin/perl
>> >
>> > (like it is on my Linux machine)
>> >
>> > Obviously this causes an error when running cloc:
>> >
>> > Can't open perl script "perl": No such file or directory
>> >
>> >
>> > I would also suggest that you consider using a newer version of cloc, as
>> > there have been several releases since 1.82
>> >
>> > Eyal
>> >
>>
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