From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 8 8: 7:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from heechee.tobez.org (254.adsl0.ryv.worldonline.dk [213.237.10.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFBF37B406 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 08:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E6203ABE3; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 17:07:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 17:07:39 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: Trish Lynch Cc: John Hay , Szilveszter Adam , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl wrapper and PATH Message-ID: <20020608150739.GD13047@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , Trish Lynch , John Hay , Szilveszter Adam , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200206080935.g589Z2v51306@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20020608094010.M403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020608094010.M403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:48:05AM -0400, Trish Lynch wrote: > The wrapper is there so that there are no suprises to people that > *expect* perl in the system. > What would possibly be a good idea is that the wrapper is there, but > it doesn;t actually redirect to the new perl. Then use.perl is run > from the port. The case for "system" should be removed or some way of > relinking to the wrapper instead should be provided? It sounds reasonable, but what's the point of having a wrapper at all then? > The problem is that use.perl is needed on -STABLE systems, so... a > different behaviour when the OS version is >=5 might be needed? I don't like that but I am afraid it has to be done. > I Cc:ed this to the ports maintainer just in case... If they would > like I can fix use.perl to have a different behaviour on -current and > thereafter, but I don;t want to step on anybody's toes. Thanks, but I think I'll try to hack something up during weekend. I am of the opinion that we don't need the wrapper and that use.perl can easily do some symlink magic to solve all outstanding issues with perl in -current. Cheers, \Anton. -- | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | | +45 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message