Anton Berezin wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:39:45AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > Per discussion with various folks, including Mark, I've moved the > > NO_PERL knob over to NO_PERL_WRAPPER, and documented same. Given that > > this is a fundamentally different thing than the old perl knobs, my > > opinion is that we don't need to provide compatibility, but I won't > > argue that point too strongly. > > The compatibility is a moot point either way, since there was no NO_PERL > knob - it used to be called NOPERL.
It's NOPERL in -stable, but it was NO_PERL in -current when I changed it to NO_PERL_WRAPPER. > > I'm currently working on a patch to ports/lang/perl5/files/use.perl to > > deal with this, and a few of the other outstanding issues. > > That's fine, but I am still trying to understand why do we need a > wrapper at all. As was indicated (on IRC, not sure it was mentioned in > the mail threads), the ability to launch /usr/bin/perl with no perl in > the system is different from the inability to launch anything at all. Personally, I don't think we need a wrapper, as long as the use.perl script knows how to DTRT. However, given that currently we have a wrapper I thought fixing use.perl to handle it was reasonable. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message