From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 25 21:15:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEA8D37B406 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 21:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17419 invoked by uid 0); 26 May 2002 04:15:42 -0000 Received: from p50910097.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO mail.gsinet.sittig.org) (80.145.0.151) by mail.gmx.net (mp004-rz3) with SMTP; 26 May 2002 04:15:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 59744 invoked from network); 25 May 2002 19:19:17 -0000 Received: from shell.gsinet.sittig.org (192.168.11.153) by mail.gsinet.sittig.org with SMTP; 25 May 2002 19:19:17 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by shell.gsinet.sittig.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g4PJJHD59740 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 25 May 2002 21:19:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sittig) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 21:19:17 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 tinderbox failure Message-ID: <20020525211917.O1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mail-Followup-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200205250446.g4P4kxsP095296@ref5.freebsd.org> <20020525063255.B16483807@overcee.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020525063255.B16483807@overcee.wemm.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0700 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 23:32 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > perl: Perl is not installed, try 'pkg_add -r perl' > > 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). Is this the moment where src/usr.bin/perl should be mailwrapper like? Instead of searching the interpreter in some uncertain location (and failing) shouldn't the program just believe in what it was told by the admin? Since the admin should know if perl is installed and where it lives. And which one to choose should multiple versions be installed (for whatever reason). [ who is screaming "bikeshed" while _functionality_ and determined behaviour is being discussed? ] virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message