On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:45:09PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Perkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jonathan> An auto-configuration script which merely checks for the > Jonathan> existance of a file rather than actually testing it's the > Jonathan> file it needs is a bit silly and probably deserves the > Jonathan> breakage. > > And just what else besides Perl would you expect to find in > /usr/bin/perl you silly pedant?!? ;-)
A broken symlink? Perl 4? Perl 6? A perfectly reasionable wrapper script? If these programs detect perl and don't work because the wrapper is there, then a) they are broken and b) it will only take a couple minutes to fix by adding a perl package so why worry. /usr/bin/perl should work if perl is installed to avoid a massive POLA violation. Since ports must not touch /usr/bin and we must not assume that PREFIX=/usr/local, a symlink is out of the question. A wrapper isn't really going to cost us anything performance wise and allows the possability of providing something more useful then "File not found" as an error message. As such, it's a very good solution. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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