cvs commit: src/etc Makefile

[David Rhodus]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:34:53 +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu
<qhwt+dfly at xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:27:29AM +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:32:26 +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu
> > <qhwt+dfly at xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > But if you do it, I need to run `usr.perl port' after every `make upgrade',
> > > making my make.conf bunch of
> > > # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
> >
> > I'm not completely sure of what you mean.  Why is use.perl needed
> > anymore if the system perl is gone.  The perl port binary is installed
> > in /usr/local/bin/perl which is in the standard PATH.
> 
> Because the path to perl binary is usually hard-coded at the beginning of
> the perl scripts, like this:
> 
>   #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> If you remove /usr/bin/perl, the scripts suddenly stops working. You can
> remove /usr/bin/perl in `make upgrade', but you can't fix every perl script
> written like this.
> 
Ah, ok.  Your change looks good, please commit.

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                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx>