Jonathan Perkin wrote: > On Mon May 13, 2002 at 02:02:28PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > There is one problem with the /usr/bin/perl redirector: it can > > cause autoconfiguration scripts to mistakenly think perl is > > installed on the system (they find the /usr/bin/perl wrapper) when > > it isn't (there is no perl-from-ports backing the redirector). > > An auto-configuration script which merely checks for the existance > of a file rather than actually testing it's the file it needs is a > bit silly and probably deserves the breakage.
FWIW: All the ones I have lying around that care about perl try to get the version by running it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
