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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2016, 18:11 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqinvt610x.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Df2cBAf0bWe1FLTb9cOqTX3vgNgC=ko82rG2in81R-FQ@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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

I guess we didn't follow through

    http://public-inbox.org/git/%3C20160720025630.GA71874%40plume%3E/

and allowed the thread to drift into a tangent?