Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:58:47 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl pathnames.h perl.c Message-ID: <200208220958.g7M9wl610735@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20020822112151.A17650@uriah.heep.sax.de> from Joerg Wunsch at "Aug 22, 2002 11:21:51 am"
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> As Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > Does the continued maintenance of this utility mean that those of us > > who objected to its existence have lost, or is it still just an interim > > solution that might not exist in 5.0-RELEASE? > > Since i don't know who objected and with which arguments they > did, i cannot say. ;-) > > Anyway, upon seeing the current /usr/bin/perl, i thought it to > be a Good Idea. Since virtually all Unix-like operating systems > these days (with FreeBSD being the exception now) ship Perl as > /usr/bin/perl, it makes the script well portable to have a > redirector there. We've got so many other redirectors (MTA, > binutils -> ELF/COFF etc.), why not keep /usr/bin/perl as well? Well I must say that I prefer not to have the perl redirector. I just do "use.perl port" after I install the port / package. Then when I do install perl 5.8, I don't end up with pieces of the director calling itself perl5.6.1 and confusing configure scripts that try to figure out what you have. I have also been using the NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yes in /etc/make.conf. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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