Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 04:12:37 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: NO_PERL -> NO_PERL_WRAPPER Message-ID: <3D033825.C024679E@FreeBSD.org> References: <3D032261.8CB94725@FreeBSD.org> <20020609105353.GD25520@heechee.tobez.org>
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Anton Berezin wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:39:45AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Per discussion with various folks, including Mark, I've moved the
> > NO_PERL knob over to NO_PERL_WRAPPER, and documented same. Given that
> > this is a fundamentally different thing than the old perl knobs, my
> > opinion is that we don't need to provide compatibility, but I won't
> > argue that point too strongly.
>
> The compatibility is a moot point either way, since there was no NO_PERL
> knob - it used to be called NOPERL.
It's NOPERL in -stable, but it was NO_PERL in -current when I changed it
to NO_PERL_WRAPPER.
> > I'm currently working on a patch to ports/lang/perl5/files/use.perl to
> > deal with this, and a few of the other outstanding issues.
>
> That's fine, but I am still trying to understand why do we need a
> wrapper at all. As was indicated (on IRC, not sure it was mentioned in
> the mail threads), the ability to launch /usr/bin/perl with no perl in
> the system is different from the inability to launch anything at all.
Personally, I don't think we need a wrapper, as long as the use.perl
script knows how to DTRT. However, given that currently we have a
wrapper I thought fixing use.perl to handle it was reasonable.
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