Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx on Linux... making 'rexxtry' just plain work

[Mark M. <mie...@ac...>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:23:33 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:

: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:02:38 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote:
:
: >I do believe there is support for the standard shell script processing
: >directive as the first line of the script.
:
: Yup, that is one piece to one option.

Micahel,

For over 6 years, I've been writing all my Object REXX programs with
this as the first lines:


#!/usr/bin/rexx
/* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*\
  File: doTask.rex                                  Author:      Mark Miesfeld
   . . . rest of comment

On Windows the interpreter ignores the first line and the program runs
fine.  On Linux, AIX, and Solaris I set the executable bit for the
program file and the program runs from the command line.

Since Open Object REXX puts the binary in a different spot on Linux
than Object REXX did, I've been setting up a symbolic link in /usr/bin.

So, I guess you would need to convince someone to add the appropriate
line to the rexxtry.rex in the distribution and make it executable to
fulfill the second half of your desire.

: My preference would be that the same decision be reflected in the rpm
: at some point.



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Mark Miesfeld
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