Re: [Bug-wget] my status with OpenSSL-1.0.0 (Re: now getting Undefined symbol for "_a2i_IPADDRESS" (Re: With wget-1.12, I'm getting "Duplicate Symbols" during make (MacOSX 10.5.8), help please?))

[Keisial]

SciFi wrote:

> Another point is that all of wget's perl shell procs are hard-coded with
> #!/usr/bin/perl which again points to Apple's and not the newer one we
> installed from ActiveState.com.  The version mismatch causes symbols to be
> missed during make's generation of those doc files.  Yes we know we could
> override with symlinks (/usr/bin/perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl) but Apple
> insists to 'repair' such symlinks when we install Apple's own system updates.
> I hate that; however, there seems to be tons of such hard-coded shellprocs in
> the wget tree.  ;)  So we try to encourage projects to somehow use the $PERL
> env-var to invoke the correct version -- I don't know how, I think most
> shells will not "pre-substitute" this on a #! line (e.g. coding the first
> line as #!$PERL).
>
> I know when we mention such things, it smashes people's toes quite hard.  ;)

I thought the standard solution for that was to use  #!/usr/bin/env perl