From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 4:24: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from heechee.tobez.org (254.adsl0.ryv.worldonline.dk [213.237.10.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DA037B401; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 04:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C2550AC08; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 13:23:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 13:23:53 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: NO_PERL -> NO_PERL_WRAPPER Message-ID: <20020609112353.GE25520@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , Doug Barton , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <3D032261.8CB94725@FreeBSD.org> <20020609105353.GD25520@heechee.tobez.org> <3D033825.C024679E@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D033825.C024679E@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 04:12:37AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: > > The compatibility is a moot point either way, since there was no NO_PERL > > knob - it used to be called NOPERL. > > It's NOPERL in -stable, but it was NO_PERL in -current when I changed it > to NO_PERL_WRAPPER. My point was that it *was* NOPERL in -current before the removal of perl. But I see you handle this case in your patch to use.perl, so no argument here. > > That's fine, but I am still trying to understand why do we need a > > wrapper at all. As was indicated (on IRC, not sure it was mentioned in > > the mail threads), the ability to launch /usr/bin/perl with no perl in > > the system is different from the inability to launch anything at all. > Personally, I don't think we need a wrapper, as long as the use.perl > script knows how to DTRT. My point exactly. > However, given that currently we have a wrapper I thought fixing > use.perl to handle it was reasonable. The keyword here is `currently'. :-) Cheers, \Anton. -- | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | | +45 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message