Date: 25 May 2002 14:54:13 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 tinderbox failure Message-ID: <xzpvg9c8k22.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020525063255.B16483807@overcee.wemm.org> References: <20020525063255.B16483807@overcee.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes:
> Indeed it is installed. Note that you have exposed a fundamental bug
> in the perl wrapper. It only searches $PATH, and /usr/local/bin is not
> in $PATH for many system tools (eg: pkg_add -r).
How about this:
Index: perl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/perl/perl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -u -r1.2 perl.c
--- perl.c 18 May 2002 05:33:28 -0000 1.2
+++ perl.c 25 May 2002 12:52:43 -0000
@@ -59,5 +59,6 @@
if (errno != ENOENT)
err(1, "%s", path);
}
+ execve("/usr/local/bin/perl", argv, environ);
errx(1, "Perl is not installed, try 'pkg_add -r perl'");
}
Of course, it won't work if Perl was installed with a non-standard
PREFIX.
DES
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