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| author | Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> | 1997-08-01 23:58:26 +1200 |
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| committer | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> | 1997-08-07 00:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | d8c2d278168b862ff4120ad8e5887d37d31f858b (patch) | |
| tree | ba919479278c1705fc4f79b7e2193083479ac8ef /os2 | |
| parent | 67fbe06e7fe7dfa95ec51821be9237cabdf281e2 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d8c2d278168b862ff4120ad8e5887d37d31f858b.tar.gz | |
Additional OS/2 patches
This is yet-another after-candidate2 -S fix:
a) We enable adding extensions for -S search on OS/2 (needed for pod2man
in makemaker after binary install);
b) remove an extra stat();
c) Update docs;
Credited: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
[editor's note: one hunk from original patch was already applied]
p5p-msgid: 199708020823.EAA19521@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
Diffstat (limited to 'os2')
| -rw-r--r-- | os2/Changes | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/os2/Changes b/os2/Changes index 15fad979f3..9678ea66e1 100644 --- a/os2/Changes +++ b/os2/Changes @@ -143,3 +143,11 @@ after 5.003_27: environment). Known problems: $$ does not work - is 0, waitpid returns immediately, thus Perl cannot wait for completion of started programs. + +before 5.004_02: + -S switch to perl enables a search with additional extensions + .cmd, .btm, .bat, .pl as well. This means that if you have + mycmd.pl or mycmd.bat on PATH, + perl -S mycmd + will work. Perl will also look in the current directory first. + Moreover, a bug with \; in PATH being non-separator is fixed. |