In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, walt wrote: > > > It correctly identifies files to be updated, asks me what > > I want to do, as usual, and when I hit 'i' for install it > > proceeds without error messages but then it tells me at > > the end that all the files I told it to install remain > > for me to merge by hand. > > Read the messages more closely and you should see one about > perl not being installed.
The trouble is, those messages vanish in about 1 millisecond when the pager fires up and displays the next set of diffs. The messages are effectively invisible on my system, and I only found them by running mergemaster under "script". Of course, Bruce, I have no doubt that you can see them on your Teletype Model 37. ;-) If mergemaster depends on perl and perl is not installed, it should be a fatal error which terminates mergemaster immediately. It doesn't make any sense to proceed if the merged files cannot be installed. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
