[MacPerl-WebCGI] Re: [MacPerl] test a cgi script

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

Art <jcac@pobox.com> wrote:

>My question is this: Is it possible to simply use MacPerl to take the 
>place of the pointer to usr/bin/perl so that I can determine whether a 
>script is going to bomb out? I tried to just insert the path in one of my 
>scripts to point to my local copy of macperl but obviously it didn't work. 
>Am I biting off more than I can chew? Is there a simple solution or is it 
>going to be really complex? 

This seems to be the result of some very muddled thinking.

First of all, no, you can't do it that way.  The #! line is non-magical 
(read emulated) in MacPerl.  It doesn't point to the path to anything 
(although it does allow you to use certain switches).  Generally if 
you're writing a script just for MacPerl the #! can look like so:

#!perl

but if you get a script written for a Unix box, and the #! looks like:

#!usr/bin/perl

That will work too.

However, aside from switches, changing the #! does NOTHING on the Mac 
(whereas on Unix you could use it to point to a different copy of Perl).

You should probably also (in addition to Chris Nandor's comments), make 
sure that certain flags are NOT set in the #! (as they don't work on the 
Mac)  specifically:

#!usr/bin/perl -T

doesn't work from the #! on MacPerl.  You can enable Taint Checks from 
the Script menu in MacPerl, which is fine for development purposes, or 
use Chris Nandor's Taint-Check version of the MacPerl CGI Script 
extention <http://pudge.net/macperl/pcgit.html> (if you're running perl 
scripts on a Mac Server that is).

Further discussion to the macperl-webcgi list.

--B



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