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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:10:24 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        walt <wsheets@sbcglobal.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mergemaster broken?
Message-ID:  <20020605120647.H5878-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CFD4AD2.40806@sbcglobal.net>

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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, walt wrote:

> It correctly identifies files to be updated, asks me what
> I want to do, as usual, and when I hit 'i' for install it
> proceeds without error messages but then it tells me at
> the end that all the files I told it to install remain
> for me to merge by hand.

Read the messages more closely and you should see one about
perl not being installed.  mergemaster tries to use perl,
but can't use it even if it is installed since it is not
in $PATH.  /usr/bin/perl prints a misleading message when
perl is installed but not in $PATH.

Bruce


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