From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | hal(at)vailsys(dot)com (Hal Snyder) |
Cc: | dg(at)illustra(dot)com, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5 |
Date: | 1998-03-23 17:26:43 |
Message-ID: | 199803231726.MAA20334@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I basically agree with this but there is one minor problem with
> FreeBSD in that it still inexplicably ships with /usr/bin/perl which
> is Perl 4 - you have to add Perl 5 which becomes /usr/local/bin/perl.
> If I had total control of all our servers I would just rename the old
> perl to perl4 (or delete it!) but I don't have that luxury.
>
> So the FreeBSD pg/Perl install should probably have a tweak to look
> for /usr/local/bin/perl and not stumble into /usr/bin/[dead]perl.
> Don't know about other BSD's.
>
My idea was to search for a perl5 binary first, then perl, but that
doesn't seem to work for anyone else. No one has complained about this
yet, either.
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