From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 13 13:38:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gateh.kw.bbc.co.uk (gateh.kw.bbc.co.uk [132.185.132.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC15F37B400 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 13:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunf0.rd.bbc.co.uk (ddmailgate.rd.bbc.co.uk [132.185.128.104]) by gateh.kw.bbc.co.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g4DKcPC10945; Mon, 13 May 2002 21:38:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk by sunf0.rd.bbc.co.uk; Mon, 13 May 02 21:38:24 BST Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 21:38:22 +0100 From: Jonathan Perkin To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-Id: <20020513203822.GA28579@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> References: <200205132002.g4DK2StI089211@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205132002.g4DK2StI089211@orthanc.ab.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organisation: BBC Internet Services 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 Mon May 13, 2002 at 02:02:28PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > There is one problem with the /usr/bin/perl redirector: it can > cause autoconfiguration scripts to mistakenly think perl is > installed on the system (they find the /usr/bin/perl wrapper) when > it isn't (there is no perl-from-ports backing the redirector). An auto-configuration script which merely checks for the existance of a file rather than actually testing it's the file it needs is a bit silly and probably deserves the breakage. -- Jonathan Perkin - BBC Internet Services - http://support.bbc.co.uk/ Please check email headers for complete list of contact details To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message