Cheers, David.
On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote:
Hi David,
No surprise, if you move perl to a different location than it's default. A perl script like any shell script specifies at the beginning of the script with which program it has to be treated. If you do
$ head /sw/bin/fink #!/usr/bin/perl -w
you see that fink is looking for /usr/bin/perl. Thus the 'command not found'. (The error messages in this case are misleading). Anyhow, you can either move your manually installed perl to /usr/bin or provide a softlink from there to your perl.
HTH, Remi
On Saturday, November 8, 2003, at 03:15 PM, David Orlovich wrote:
Hi fink users.
Somehow I've managed to stop fink from working. I've been playing around a bit today so I'll outline what the problem is, and how I managed to get to it:
First, now if I issue a fink command, it isn't recognised:
[fungus:~] davidorlovich% fink selfupdate fink: Command not found.
So, if I see if /sw/bin is in my path, apparently it is:
[fungus:~] davidorlovich% printenv PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/ usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
and if I check if fink is actually there, it is: [fungus:~] davidorlovich% ls -lsa /sw/bin/fink 16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4986 Oct 25 18:26 /sw/bin/fink
Also, if I run a fink-installed program (e.g.: xgalaga), it works fine.
So, what did I do to get to this? Well, today I installed (by hand) a new perl (5.8.2). Instead of installing it in /usr/bin (which is where 5.8.1 was installed), I installed it in /usr/local/bin. I didn't really mean to do it this way ... but I did. Anyway, after upgrading perl, I did 'perl -v' and it still showed perl-5.8.1, which is when I realised I was putting it in a different place. Then what I did was deleted perl from /usr/bin, and then perl -v showed the newest version:
[fungus:~] davidorlovich% perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.2 built for darwin <etc etc>
and now my perl is
[fungus:~] davidorlovich% which perl /usr/local/bin/perl
Next time I tried to run fink, I got the 'command not found', whereas it worked fine before I played around with perl. I really don't see how these are connected anyway but somehow there is a problem and I can't figure it out!
Anyway suggestions much appreciated!
cheers, David.
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