portable iwperl location (hardcoded)

The first line of a script needs to be:

#!/usr/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl

Since I am working on a dev server, prod may put the iwhome elsewhere

I could use a relative path to iwperl or I can place the iwperl
in the system PATH and not and just use:

#! iwperl

No answer thrills me, what do other companies do ?

Andy

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Migrateduser

We make sure our dev and prod servers are set up identically so we don't run into things like this. Why can't you set up your dev server to have iwperl in the same path as your prod server?

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Johnny

I agree with Dave.

On the same point we always have a symbolic link (solaris, no idea what the alternative is on windows) that points back to one spot.

So teamsite may be installed at /opt/interwoven/teamsite

but we always reference /iw-home which points back to the installation.

That way, you can have it installed in different spots without your code being affected.

John Cuiuli
Consultant
Sydney, Australia

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