Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:54:36 -0700 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl Makefile Message-ID: <20020607155436.A92213@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20020607145445.A91889@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:54:45PM -0700 References: <200206071855.g57Ithx67035@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzphekekc9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020607145445.A91889@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* From David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:30:11PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > Log: > > > Install a "perl5.6.1" wrapper. I think this is going too far as now > > > /usr/src has to carefully watch the Perl port to keep this in sync. > > > But this is the only way I am allowed to fix the mozzila build > > > (and other USE_PERL5 ports). > > > > Please back this out, this is a bug in bsd.port.mk which will be fixed > > very shortly. > > We need to state what the policy for /usr/bin/perl* is. > People have been known to use #!/usr/bin/perl, #!/usr/bin/perl5, and even > #!/usr/bin/perl<VERSION> in scripts. So while I do consider this commit > a wart, how compatible with the in-/usr/src perl installation should we > be? People should be using: #! /usr/bin/env perl And setting a 'require' for the perl version they need. And we should probably have patches as part of the ports that don't do this "right". My opinion. -- J. Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD: The Power To Serve "I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." -- George W. Bush, Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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