[Openmcl-devel] CCL startup script (ccl & ccl64) is not Bourne Shell compatible

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 28 Oct 2009, at 21:13, Aleksej Saushev wrote:

> Well... If you don't know your target system, you may be unpleasantly
> surprised at some point. That's with usage of both "#!/usr/bin/env"  
> and
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Indeed.  The aim is to get as few surprises as possible while ensuring  
stuff works with as little hassle as possible, and you have a chance  
in hell of getting it through audit.

> The main difference from Lisp is that you (as a sysadmin) have  
> control on
> both interpreter and RPATH, you can change them in-place (except in  
> some
> extremely paranoid cases, where you run security-hardened site with
> executable protection and such).

I vaguely remember sites like that, nice to know they still exist.