From owner-cvs-all Sun Jun 9 2:31: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0896B37B401; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 02:30:57 -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 7C39A8B5BF; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 02:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D03204F.B84172D@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 02:30:55 -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: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl Makefile References: <200206071855.g57Ithx67035@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020607145445.A91889@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:30:11PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "David E. O'Brien" 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 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. -- "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 cvs-all" in the body of the message