From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T22:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on oreilly.net on how to build Unix tools with Ruby

On Wednesday, 24 September 2003 at 20:18:42 +0900, Mike Stok wrote:
> In article <20030923200517.A36392@freeze.org>,
> >
> >  I get the error that ruby -w is not found.
> >  The gnu manual says that it should work, but it certainly
> >  doesn't work as it does on FreeBSD or Sun.
> 
> One way of getting arounf env's ignoring ARGS iff you are just doing -w
> is to put
> 
>   $VERBOSE = true
> 
> after the shebang line.  See

Yes, that is our current work around. It's probably the better
convention because it is reliable for all platforms.


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Jim Freeze
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