Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 02:30:55 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl Makefile Message-ID: <3D03204F.B84172D@FreeBSD.org> References: <200206071855.g57Ithx67035@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzphekekc9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020607145445.A91889@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:30:11PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > Log:
> > > Install a "perl5.6.1" wrapper. I think this is going too far as now
> > > /usr/src has to carefully watch the Perl port to keep this in sync.
> > > But this is the only way I am allowed to fix the mozzila build
> > > (and other USE_PERL5 ports).
> >
> > Please back this out, this is a bug in bsd.port.mk which will be fixed
> > very shortly.
>
> We need to state what the policy for /usr/bin/perl* is.
> People have been known to use #!/usr/bin/perl, #!/usr/bin/perl5, and even
> #!/usr/bin/perl<VERSION> in scripts. So while I do consider this commit
> a wart, how compatible with the in-/usr/src perl installation should we
> be?
I think that the current set of symlinks are reasonable. We can add more
as time goes by if our users ask for them. The symlinks certainly don't
cost us anything. Tracking the perlN.N.N stuff will require someone to
be mindful of it, but we have more than enough perl hackers around to
handle this I think.
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