From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 23:22:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9226B1065673 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 23:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout025.mac.com (asmtpout025.mac.com [17.148.16.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB728FC08 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 23:22:51 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp025.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L0M00DG3UA1YT30@asmtp025.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:22:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1004090244 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4BBFB4E8.9010304@comclark.com> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:22:49 -0700 Message-id: <9FBA659F-FB72-493D-B93C-610D1214BF74@mac.com> References: <4BBFB4E8.9010304@comclark.com> To: Aiza X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: perl links X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:22:51 -0000 On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Aiza wrote: > When installing perl i see 2 links between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. Is this still required or is it something left over from when perl was part of the base system? > > symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl > symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl5 This is to compensate for Perl scripts which assume they know where the path to the interpreter is, rather than using env.... Regards, -- -Chuck