Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 12:14:42 -0600 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Dima Sivachenko" <demon@gpad.ac.ru>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Question about porting... Message-ID: <00ce01be30fb$9d0f4220$0dcb2e9c@westbend.net> References: <199812252112.AAA03104@diamond.gpad.ac.ru>
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From: Dima Sivachenko <demon@gpad.ac.ru>
> Hello!
> I am about to make a port of one program, written in perl.
> But the first line of this program looks strange:
> #!/Smth strange/perl
> So I want to make a patch to fix this. But the path of `perl' is different
> on different FreeBSD versions: /usr/local/bin on 2.2.7 and /usr/bin on
> 3.0 due to 3.0 is already shipped with perl5 rather than perl4.
>
> How should I determine the actial path of perl5 in Makefile of my port?
>
You add:
USE_PERL = TRUE
and then use a sed command to replace the perl line as follows:
cat unfixedperl.file | sed `s;Smth Strange/perl;${PERL};' > fixedperl.file
Scot
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