From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 17:30:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29694 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA29688 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id TAA02650; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:30:56 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma002608; Tue Apr 8 00:30:45 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970407192409.00c81ce8@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 19:24:10 -0500 To: Nadav Eiron From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: perl -> perl5? Cc: Doug White , FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:05 PM 4/7/97 +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote: >Well, I'm running all my machines with /bin/perl symlinked to perl5 >(started with 2.1.0, but went through 2.1.5,6,7 on about 4 machines). >Never had any perl problems, but I'm not sure that I looked well enough. Just about the same thing, no problems either. >perl isn't completly backward compatible, but if you follow the >"recommended" (i.e. camel book) style of writing, it pretty much makes >it so. I do remember some thread about such problems in -questions about >half a year ago, but I think it wasn't with any standard perl scripts >that come with FreeBSD. Since perl4 is what you get on install, even on 2.2.1, and most *want* perl5, I add it. At least the package add does not replace it, as there is at least one person that needs perl4 for something, so I 'cp perl perl4' and someone that needs perl4 can change the header. And there is only one person with this problem, out of several hundred. Not sure myself what changed, but I think it was a syntax change. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990