Re: [Cooker] latex2html broken w/ new perl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Current latex2html is looking for perl5.8.1: bash: /usr/bin/latex2html: /usr/bin/perl5.8.1: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Shouldn't there be a preventive rebuild of everything depending on perl? yes: do not write stuping programs that rely on specific versions of perl. since there're still maintream authors that do this, we've to patch such programs to rely on /usr/bin/perl and not /usr/bin/perl-version
Re: [Cooker] latex2html broken w/ new perl
Thierry Vignaud wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Current latex2html is looking for perl5.8.1: bash: /usr/bin/latex2html: /usr/bin/perl5.8.1: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Shouldn't there be a preventive rebuild of everything depending on perl? yes: do not write stuping programs that rely on specific versions of perl. since there're still maintream authors that do this, we've to patch such programs to rely on /usr/bin/perl and not /usr/bin/perl-version Why? How one program can be sure for instance that /usr/bin/perl is compatible with old version (for instance imaging /usr/bin/perl is perl 6.0 and program was only tested against perl 5.8.1)? Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] latex2html broken w/ new perl
Giuseppe Ghibò [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't there be a preventive rebuild of everything depending on perl? yes: do not write stuping programs that rely on specific versions of perl. since there're still maintream authors that do this, we've to patch such programs to rely on /usr/bin/perl and not /usr/bin/perl-version Why? How one program can be sure for instance that /usr/bin/perl is compatible with old version (for instance imaging /usr/bin/perl is perl 6.0 and program was only tested against perl 5.8.1)? let's be serious: main upstream authors won't look at perl changes, distro maintainers do quite more work in that area. especially, latex2html predate the whole perl-5.8.x and perl-5.8.2 is only a bugfix release for 5.8.1 that main mainstream authors won't work with until their prefered distro get updated ... i even remember that in the old days (around 1995) they hardcoded /usr/local/bin/perl stuff in some latex2html scripts. this is just a badly packaged (at mainstream level) program.
