From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 21:27:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF0C16A4CF for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:27:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AFF43D2F for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:27:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id ED8B837E5F; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:27:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEC737E48 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:27:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A40AE37E48 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:27:09 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 78468 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Jan 2005 21:27:08 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:27:08 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050129212708.GA78454@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Chuck Swiger , Oliver Lehmann , perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: perl@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:27:12 -0000 On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:19:21PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Oliver Lehmann wrote: > >Anton Berezin wrote: > >>In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > >>order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > >>#! /usr/local/bin/perl. > > > >Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world? > > Well-behaved 3rd party scripts ought to start Perl via: > > #! /usr/bin/env perl > > ...so long as /usr/local/bin is in the $PATH, they should still work fine. True, but how many 3rd party scripts are well-behaved? A minority is my guess. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se