From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 4:12:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE7137B403 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 04:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B95D8B5AD; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 04:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D033825.C024679E@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 04:12:37 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Berezin Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: NO_PERL -> NO_PERL_WRAPPER References: <3D032261.8CB94725@FreeBSD.org> <20020609105353.GD25520@heechee.tobez.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message