Thanks for your replies, you are right, I was expecting symbolic link notation, didn't think about them having same inode. So glad to find some responsive people on this list! --Mark
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:06 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Send lfs-dev mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of lfs-dev digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. LFS 8.3 doc: issue with Perl executables still lists c2ph > which is now removed (Mark Wigzell) > 2. Re: LFS 8.3 doc: issue with Perl executables still lists > c2ph which is now removed (Bruce Dubbs) > 3. Re: LFS 8.3 doc: issue with Perl executables still lists > c2ph which is now removed (Ken Moffat) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 08:39:20 -0800 > From: Mark Wigzell <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 doc: issue with Perl executables still > lists c2ph which is now removed > Message-ID: > < > ca+a9a7bphplcg+tc+guocsalxsofeh2igrkcknkgfuyyxhh...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > In fact, I believe it was removed in earlier 5.26 release of perl. > Also, on install, /usr/bin/perl is not linked to /usr/bin/perl5.28.0. > I am using the more_control_helpers package management. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/attachments/20190224/dec9b5ab/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:57:21 -0600 > From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 doc: issue with Perl executables still > lists c2ph which is now removed > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 2/24/19 10:39 AM, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: > > In fact, I believe it was removed in earlier 5.26 release of perl. > > Also, on install, /usr/bin/perl is not linked to /usr/bin/perl5.28.0. > > I am using the more_control_helpers package management. > > Thank you for the report. I'll remove c2ph and pstruct. > > /usr/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl5.28.0 are hard links. > > $ ls -li /usr/bin/perl{,5.28.1} > 4600138 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 14408 Feb 7 03:40 /usr/bin/perl > 4600138 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 14408 Feb 7 03:40 /usr/bin/perl5.28.1 > > -- Bruce > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:01:55 +0000 > From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]> > To: LFS Developers Mailinglist <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 doc: issue with Perl executables still > lists c2ph which is now removed > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 08:39:20AM -0800, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: > > In fact, I believe it was removed in earlier 5.26 release of perl. > > Also, on install, /usr/bin/perl is not linked to /usr/bin/perl5.28.0. > > I am using the more_control_helpers package management. > > For c2ph I agree it seems to have gone. I'm out of cycles to > address that (or to look at the unrelated man-db suggestion) at the > moment, hope Bruce will be reading ;-) If not, maybe tomorrow. > > But on the 8.3 system where I'm reading this, /usr/bin/perl5.28.0 is > indeed a hard link to /usr/bin/perl as the book says. Use 'ls -li' > to confirm they have the same inode numbers. And if they don't I'm > afraid your package management is probably at fault. > > If so, having separate binaries is usually not a big deal, it merely > wastes space. > > ĸen > -- > The beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one > inescapably to the conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, > the greates. -- du Garbandier > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > ------------------------------ > > End of lfs-dev Digest, Vol 3081, Issue 1 > **************************************** >
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