Previously YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > Yes. That's to avoid building broken dpkg debs by mistake under > Debian environment. /usr/sbin/update-alternatives that needs > /usr/local/bin/perl would be quite harmful to most sites.
But changing PATH doesn't affect that at all. > We can explicitly use standard /usr/bin/perl by restricting PATH to > /usr/bin:/bin when configure. Those scripts should run with any perl version (maybe not perl3 and older, but definitely anything from perl4), so I do not see why we would want to restrict PATH. > Can we assume it's already under Debian environment when configuring > and building dpkg in debian/rules? Definitely not, the only dependencies should be GNU make, perl4 or later and the packages listed as Build-Depends. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
