Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:08:14 +0100 From: Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <200501301208.19650.raabe@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <1985053043.20050130134456@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <1985053043.20050130134456@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sunday 30 January 2005 11:44, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > AB> Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I > AB> plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming > AB> upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). > > AB> In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > AB> order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > AB> #! /usr/local/bin/perl. > In all scripts of all my friends, who have hosting on my server & use > perl scripts? NO, THANKS! Don't despair, ironically Perl itself can solve this problem for you, using something like find /some/directory -type f -print0 | \ xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's,^#! ?/usr(/local)?/bin/perl,#!/usr/bin/env perl' - Frerich -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB/MAj+Cc0VGj85/ARAvc7AJwM+4bgP4p+zXsPA45vZ3s3K4hrkwCgnfmC s4Me86yCK6YKHmmQXUqhpqk= =fS0G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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