From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 22 3: 2: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0057737B400; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088DC43E7B; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7M9wl610735; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:58:47 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200208220958.g7M9wl610735@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl pathnames.h perl.c In-Reply-To: <20020822112151.A17650@uriah.heep.sax.de> from Joerg Wunsch at "Aug 22, 2002 11:21:51 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:58:47 +0200 (SAT) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > Does the continued maintenance of this utility mean that those of us > > who objected to its existence have lost, or is it still just an interim > > solution that might not exist in 5.0-RELEASE? > > Since i don't know who objected and with which arguments they > did, i cannot say. ;-) > > Anyway, upon seeing the current /usr/bin/perl, i thought it to > be a Good Idea. Since virtually all Unix-like operating systems > these days (with FreeBSD being the exception now) ship Perl as > /usr/bin/perl, it makes the script well portable to have a > redirector there. We've got so many other redirectors (MTA, > binutils -> ELF/COFF etc.), why not keep /usr/bin/perl as well? Well I must say that I prefer not to have the perl redirector. I just do "use.perl port" after I install the port / package. Then when I do install perl 5.8, I don't end up with pieces of the director calling itself perl5.6.1 and confusing configure scripts that try to figure out what you have. I have also been using the NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yes in /etc/make.conf. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message