From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 13 15:52:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB61637B405 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 15:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0608.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.98] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 177OfS-0003fj-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 15:51:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE04364.25DDDFCF@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:51:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Perkin Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD References: <200205132002.g4DK2StI089211@orthanc.ab.ca> <20020513203822.GA28579@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> 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 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