Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:35:02 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: sziszi@bsd.hu (Szilveszter Adam) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl wrapper and PATH Message-ID: <200206080935.g589Z2v51306@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20020608082705.GA548@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> from Szilveszter Adam at "Jun 8, 2002 10:27:05 am"
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> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:26:18PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote: > > I ran "use.perl port", and that gave me a working perl for mergemaster. > > Interestingly, "use.perl system" didn't give me back the perl wrapper; > > I'm not sure what I got. Sigh. > > That script predates the removal of perl from the base system, and was > supposed to facilitate the switching between various perl versions. It > still has its justification of existence on -STABLE, but on -CURRENT, it > does not work well any more. What you got is likely links to nowhere, > your perl wrapper binary was clobbered. > > Bottom line: if at all, it should only be used for "use.perl port", for > the cases where the wrapper does not work as desired. Or maybe we should get rid of the wrapper and change the perl port/package to run "use.perl port" by default on current? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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