Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Brett McCormick
Subject Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5
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Msg-id 13590.1695.137625.586822@abraxas.scene.com
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In response to perl/perl5  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5  (dg@illustra.com (David Gould))
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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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