From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 18: 9:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from maul.immure.com (ns.immure.com [207.8.42.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FC137B400 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 18:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by maul.immure.com (8.11.5/8.11.2) id g5N19Q770380 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:09:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.vieo.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.11.5/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g5N19Ow70298; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:09:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g5N19Otk052819; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:09:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5N19OxO052794; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:09:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5N19OBX052793; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:09:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:09:24 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: "David O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: locate.mklocatedb requires perl which may not be installed Message-ID: <20020623010924.GA52691@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20020622232227.GA50787@luke.immure.com> <20020622175547.A98099@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020622175547.A98099@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on luke.immure.com X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c+ on maul.immure.com 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 Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 05:55:47PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 06:22:27PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > Rather than simply installing perl (I'll get to that later) > > I decided to track down what was calling it. Turns out that > > /usr/libexec/locate.mklocatedb was the culprit. I then modified > > locate.mklocatedb to use awk rather than perl. Here's the diff: > > Thanks, committed. > BTW, please take care about how your MUA handles ^I's vs. ' '. :-) Hmm, strange. The first awk line had the ^I's converted to spaces and the second one didn't. Digging into this abit deeper, it seems that my MUA (mutt) probably wasn't to blame afterall. It appears that I must have hosed this up myself while editing the file. :-( Bob -- Bob Willcox If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, bob@vieo.com why practice? Austin, TX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message