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

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thank you for the report.  I'll remove c2ph and pstruct.
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> /usr/bin/perl and  /usr/bin/perl5.28.0 are hard links.
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> $ 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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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
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