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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:21:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, "re@freebsd.org" <re@freebsd.org>, "anholt@freebsd.org" <anholt@freebsd.org>, "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>
Subject:   Re: perl from with XF4 port
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021217152133.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DFF7E0E.8030408@btc.adaptec.com>

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On 17-Dec-2002 Scott Long wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> On 17-Dec-2002 Long, Scott wrote:
>>
>> >I just did a fresh install of RC1+ onto my workstation machine and 
>> proceeded
>> >to build X.  A previous package install had installed the perl package.
>> >Unfortunately, during the build of the X fonts, it stopped and said that
>> >/usr/X11R6/bin/mkhtmlindex could not be found.  Sure enough the file was
>> >there, but the contents started with
>> >
>> >#!/usr/bin/perl
>> >
>> >So it looks like yet more damage caused by the perl wrapper removal. 
>>  I also
>> >noted that installing the XF4 library package produces the same 
>> error.  This
>> >probably needs to be fixed in some fashion for 5.0-R
>>
>>
>> The current version of the perl package should do a 'use.perl port'
>> automatically which should have fixed this case.  If you installed
>> the port a while ago you need to do 'use.perl port' manually.
>>
> As I mentioend at the beginning, this was a *fresh* install of the OS.

The perl package on RC1 wasn't that fresh.  It has since been updated
to do the automatic use.perl port thing post-RC1 IIRC.

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