> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:26:18PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote: > > I ran "use.perl port", and that gave me a working perl for mergemaster. > > Interestingly, "use.perl system" didn't give me back the perl wrapper; > > I'm not sure what I got. Sigh. > > That script predates the removal of perl from the base system, and was > supposed to facilitate the switching between various perl versions. It > still has its justification of existence on -STABLE, but on -CURRENT, it > does not work well any more. What you got is likely links to nowhere, > your perl wrapper binary was clobbered. > > Bottom line: if at all, it should only be used for "use.perl port", for > the cases where the wrapper does not work as desired.
Or maybe we should get rid of the wrapper and change the perl port/package to run "use.perl port" by default on current? John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
