From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 3:54: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from heechee.tobez.org (254.adsl0.ryv.worldonline.dk [213.237.10.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4067637B401; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 03:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 42611AC09; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:53:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:53:53 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: NO_PERL -> NO_PERL_WRAPPER Message-ID: <20020609105353.GD25520@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , Doug Barton , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <3D032261.8CB94725@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D032261.8CB94725@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:39:45AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Per discussion with various folks, including Mark, I've moved the > NO_PERL knob over to NO_PERL_WRAPPER, and documented same. Given that > this is a fundamentally different thing than the old perl knobs, my > opinion is that we don't need to provide compatibility, but I won't > argue that point too strongly. The compatibility is a moot point either way, since there was no NO_PERL knob - it used to be called NOPERL. > I'm currently working on a patch to ports/lang/perl5/files/use.perl to > deal with this, and a few of the other outstanding issues. That's fine, but I am still trying to understand why do we need a wrapper at all. As was indicated (on IRC, not sure it was mentioned in the mail threads), the ability to launch /usr/bin/perl with no perl in the system is different from the inability to launch anything at all. =Anton. -- | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | | +45 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message