Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:51:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk> Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <3CE04364.25DDDFCF@mindspring.com> References: <p0511175ab900b9927511@[128.113.24.47]> <200205132002.g4DK2StI089211@orthanc.ab.ca> <20020513203822.GA28579@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk>
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Jonathan Perkin wrote: > 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. FWIW: All the ones I have lying around that care about perl try to get the version by running it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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