Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:19:21 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: >> In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in >> order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to >> #! /usr/local/bin/perl. > > Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world? Well-behaved 3rd party scripts ought to start Perl via: #! /usr/bin/env perl ...so long as /usr/local/bin is in the $PATH, they should still work fine. -- -Chuck
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