Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5

Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>

From: Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
Date: 1998-03-23T06:54:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I would consider that to be a bug, not a feature.  Once perl is
installed locally from source, it becomes 'perl' and replaces common
path locations of the old version with itself (/usr/bin/perl).

On Mon, 23 March 1998, at 01:39:31, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> On BSDI, 'perl' is perl4 and 'perl5' is perl5.  This causes
> interfaces/Makefile to fail when running perl5/Makefile.PL.
> 
> Does anyone else have such a problem?  I don't want to fix it unless it
> is a problem for others.
> 
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