Use a shebang: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289818 Index: work/texmf-dist/scripts/vpe/vpe.pl =================================================================== --- a/texmf-dist/scripts/vpe/vpe.pl +++ b/texmf-dist/scripts/vpe/vpe.pl @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 $argv:q' - if 0; +#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # # vpe.pl