On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:14:48AM +0800, Aiza wrote: > When installing perl i see 2 links between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. > Is this still required or is it something left over from when perl was > part of the base system? > > symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl > symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl5
It is still required (at least the first one.) It is there to be compatible with a very large number of existing Perl scripts which assume that the Perl interpreter can be found as /usr/bin/perl This has nothing do to with when Perl was part of the base system - it is a Perl convention which was established before FreeBSD (or Linux for that matter) even existed. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
