Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5

From: Brett McCormick <brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org (PostgreSQL-development)
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5
Date: 1998-03-23 06:54:13
Message-ID: 13590.1695.137625.586822@abraxas.scene.com
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I would consider that to be a bug, not a feature. Once perl is
installed locally from source, it becomes 'perl' and replaces common
path locations of the old version with itself (/usr/bin/perl).

On Mon, 23 March 1998, at 01:39:31, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> On BSDI, 'perl' is perl4 and 'perl5' is perl5. This causes
> interfaces/Makefile to fail when running perl5/Makefile.PL.
>
> Does anyone else have such a problem? I don't want to fix it unless it
> is a problem for others.
>
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