Hi, At Wed, 2 Jan 2002 03:03:28 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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. I believe that PATH setting when configure does affect the result. It replaces each #!/usr/bin/perl with one discovered by configure. > > 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. I understand your point w.r.t. the package's policy. Thank you. -- YAEGASHI Takeshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
