Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 00:53:52 -0700 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl wrapper bad Message-ID: <20020608005352.D48763@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20020608074725.GA45357@roughtrade.net>; from joshua@roughtrade.net on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:47:25PM %2B1000 References: <20020608074725.GA45357@roughtrade.net>
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* From Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> > ... when I say "bad" I don't mean in execution. I mean that > the idea of a redirecting wrapper for one special program seems to > me an architectural wart that shouldn't be pushed on the userbase. With no gain except supporting improperly-shebanged scripts. We can use s/// in ports to fix shebangs, so there's not much excuse there, and I'd rather have a tool using autoconf find the Real perl than the wrapper, but to do this I have to deviate from the path I normally use to prefer system utilities over local ones: /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/a/pkg/bin: \ /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/usr/gnu/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/a/pkg/sbin Can you spot all the places Perl might be there? Can you now tell me which one a ``wrapper'' for "the 'real' Perl" should look? And what about where autoconf scripts should find perl? -- J. Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD: The Power To Serve "I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." -- George W. Bush, Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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