On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:34:49PM +0200, Jean-Fran?ois Mertens wrote: > > On 02 May 2005, at 22:20, Daniel Macks wrote: > > >On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:53:56PM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > > > >>There's a problem with this. Fink's texi2html uses #!/sw/bin/perl . > >>But I'm using system-perl586, so I don't have a /sw/bin/perl. This is > >>detected by 'make', so it uses the OS X texi2html instead. > >> > >>So this raises the questions: Is it ok to use /sw/bin/perl as an > >>interpreter? And if it is, how are people using system-perl* supposed > >>to deal with it? > >> > > May I remind of http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel/ > 9706 ?? > The problem is much more widespread, and affects over half of fink's > pkgs ... > We will never correct but an infinitesimal fraction of those... > To me, the only realistic solution is that fink's perl pkgs install the > symlink /sw/bin/perl -> perlxyz in a PostInstallScript and, in a > PreRemoveScript, > re-set it to point to /usr/bin/perl.
"update-alternatives" is a clean way of accomplishing this kind of game. Give fink itself %p/bin/perl->/usr/bin/perl with a low priority and then each perlXXX a %p/bin/perl->perlXXX with a higher priority (and remove the actual %p/bin/perl from that pkg). If users actually ever became comfortable with update-alternatives, we could maybe even use it in perlXXX-core to supply all the stuff currently in perlXXX and nuke that latter package entirely. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
