Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: correct perl path on FreeBSD

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2016, 17:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Df2cBAf0bWe1FLTb9cOqTX3vgNgC=ko82rG2in81R-FQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daWNAWjtfR7CYN3RTeT7VyvgiNX5HED0=f3F=GT8h4yKPA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It looks the the symlink /usr/bin/perl (to /usr/local/bin/perl) has
>> been removed at least on FreeBSD 10.3. See [1] for more information.
>>
>> [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING?r1=386270&r2=386269&pathrev=386270&diff_format=c
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Tested with fbsd 10.3, kvm image. But I suppose it's the same as real
>>  fbsd.
>
> Thanks; and we know that older (but not too old that we no longer care about)
> FreeBSD all have /usr/local/bin/perl?

I'm no fbsd expert but from the first sentence in [1] "Perl has been removed from base more than ten years ago..." I would assume it meant "... removed from base, _to_ ports system" which means /usr/local for all package installation (for ten years for perl). So I think we are good.

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Duy