Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:23:46 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.20 breaks /usr/bin/perl Message-ID: <20150816092346.3410d33b@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <0C7DA76B10BC9A38A3BBE715@atuin.in.mat.cc> References: <55CF9848.3050302@groumpf.org> <B1F5C46CD42C2B71A771C2FE@atuin.in.mat.cc> <55CFA04B.10309@groumpf.org> <0C7DA76B10BC9A38A3BBE715@atuin.in.mat.cc>
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:38:22 +0200 Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > +--On 15 ao=FBt 2015 22:25:47 +0200 Xavier <xavier@groumpf.org> wrote: [snip] =20 > | IMHO, the port should at least emit a warning, since almost every Perl > | program I'm aware of (including those I wrote for 20 years, since > | MacPerl) use shebang /usr/bin/perl. I even remember it's mentioned in t= he > | Camel Book. >=20 > It was mentionned in UPDATING, in the 20150513 entry, the one > explaining how you upgrade from 5.18 to 5.20 :-) Although it was mentioned in UPDATING there could be problems for users who rely entirely on pkg and never build from ports. Many of these users will not have, nor need, an up to date ports tree in which case they will not be aware of this. IMHO the note about the symlink having been removed should also have been included as pkg-message. --=20 Mike Clarke
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