Linked by Jussi Pakkanen on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:20 UTC
Let me begin by telling you a little story. Some time ago I needed to run a script at work once a day. We had tons of machines ranging from big Unix servers to Linux desktops. Due to various reasons the script could only be run on a desktop machine. However using cron was disabled on desktops. All other machines allowed cron.
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RE[2]: Needlessly complex: C/C++ compilation
by sanctus on Wed 18th Apr 2007 17:26
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Member since:2005-08-31
yeah python, (same thing goes for ruby) to make your script work you have to write at the beginning : #!/usr/bin/python
but wait, what if python is not located there.
solution : #!/usr/bin/env python
but wait, what if env is not there either !!
what a hack
so just remove that line and type python before the script
RE[2]: Needlessly complex: C/C++ compilation
by MORB on Wed 18th Apr 2007 21:51
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Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
So, instead of writing a makefile ("config file for make"), we now write a config file for the makefile generator generator. Nice improvement.
This is not limited to C/C++:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12
This is part of the reason why people are migrating en mass to languages like Ruby and Python.