From: Alex Riesen Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:17:07 GMT Subject: Re: [Patch] Using 'perl' in *.sh Message-ID: <20060709121706.GD5919@steel.home> In-Reply-To: Yakov Lerner, Sun, Jul 09, 2006 12:09:30 +0200: > >Now imagine a non-posix system where an upgrade was made. Amongst > >other things perl was moved, i.e. from /opt/perl-5.8.8 to > >/usr/local/{bin,lib}. Suddenly git breaks. > > Building new perl for sources never removed, > by itself, older perls on the system. Did it ever for you ? No. But a strange package management program will remove the old perl.