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

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > 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
>
> Ah, I missed that.  I guess that explains why nobody complained
> about the problem sooner.
>
>> >>> 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?
>
> +Cc Dscho
>
> I've been meaning to followup on that, but had connectivity
> problems to my VM last week.  I still prefer we use numeric
> comparisons for version numbers since numbers are... numeric.
> IOW, I prefer we go with my original patch.