From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 17 10:40:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA13756 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:40:50 -0800 Received: from helix.nih.gov (helix.nih.gov [128.231.2.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA13744 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:40:46 -0800 Received: by helix.nih.gov (940715.SGI.52/1.35(m-sg-1.0)) id AA06558; Tue, 17 Jan 95 13:40:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 13:40:39 -0500 From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Message-Id: <9501171840.AA06558@helix.nih.gov> To: James Binkley Subject: Re: how does one get perl for 2.0? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk " I should like to get perl 4 for the 2.0 release. Have " I missed it somewhere? It's in there. But 'which perl' will show /usr/bin/perl, whereas most perl scripts begin with '#!/usr/local/bin/perl' 8-( This is a problem in more than one area. Some nitty gritty scripts which attempt portability will reference things like /bin/true --and of course, that's /usr/bin/true in FreeBSD! My cure is to leave the software alone, and make symlinks as needed to keep the scripts happy. I still write perl '#!/usr/local/bin/perl'. " Jim Binkley " jrb@cs.pdx.edu Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov "Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." A. Lincoln