Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5

> I basically agree with this but there is one minor problem with
> FreeBSD in that it still inexplicably ships with /usr/bin/perl which
> is Perl 4 - you have to add Perl 5 which becomes /usr/local/bin/perl.
> If I had total control of all our servers I would just rename the old
> perl to perl4 (or delete it!) but I don't have that luxury.
> 
> So the FreeBSD pg/Perl install should probably have a tweak to look
> for /usr/local/bin/perl and not stumble into /usr/bin/[dead]perl.
> Don't know about other BSD's.
> 

My idea was to search for a perl5 binary first, then perl, but that
doesn't seem to work for anyone else.  No one has complained about this
yet, either.

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