Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 12:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: dima@best.net, max@wide.ad.jp, hoek@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/mirror Makefile Message-ID: <199808161918.MAA27821@burka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980816150441.1327C-100000@localhost> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Aug 16, 1998 3: 7:31 pm"
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Tim Vanderhoek writes:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Dima Ruban wrote:
>
> > I think, we should have something like:
> > PERL5?= ${PREFIX}/bin/perl${PERL_VERSION}
> > in bsd.port.mk and
> >
> > use ${PERL5} instead of ${PREFIX}/bin/perl in all the Makefiles.
>
> I don't use this funky perl5 stuff, but can't ports just use
> "${PREFIX}/bin/perl5"? That's no more complicated than hundreds
> of other similar paths in the ports tree.
>
> Or is "perl5" not always guaranteed to be a link to the latest,
> greatest perl version?
I've no idea. The reason I've proposed this is that here we have
/usr/local/bin/perl -> /usr/bin/perl which is perl4 and
/usr/local/bin/perl5 which is perl V5
(having two different version with the same name creates a confusion in
ISP enviroment).
But your solution is perfectly good for me.
>
> --
> This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund.
>
-- dima
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