Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Dependency of dpkg on perl580

2003-11-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:28:43PM +0100, jfm wrote: > >... in principle what we > >should do in fink is to identify all such packages and somehow force > >them to use /usr/bin/perl instead of /sw/bin/perl when they are being > >built. This may be hard to do... > > Indeed _ a subset of those pack

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Dependency of dpkg on perl580

2003-11-02 Thread jfm
On Oct 29, 2003, at 7:39 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: My guess is that what happens is this: the configure script for some package runs "which perl" and then uses the answer to decide what to write in the perl scripts for that package. dpkg must be one of the things affected by this. Sure _ real

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Dependency of dpkg on perl580

2003-10-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:30:32PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote: > > Shouldn't system-perl simply put in a /usr/bin/perl -> /sw/bin/perl symlink? > > That seems much easier. > > Unfortunately, that runs contrary to fink's policy of not modifying /usr > but confining itself to /sw (with the sole

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Dependency of dpkg on perl580

2003-10-29 Thread David R. Morrison
> Shouldn't system-perl simply put in a /usr/bin/perl -> /sw/bin/perl symlink? > That seems much easier. Unfortunately, that runs contrary to fink's policy of not modifying /usr but confining itself to /sw (with the sole exception of a fink-installed xfree86). -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Dependency of dpkg on perl580

2003-10-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:39:39PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote: > My guess is that what happens is this: the configure script for some > package runs "which perl" and then uses the answer to decide what to > write in the perl scripts for that package. dpkg must be one of the > things affected

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Dependency of dpkg on perl580

2003-10-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Jean-Francois. My guess is that what happens is this: the configure script for some package runs "which perl" and then uses the answer to decide what to write in the perl scripts for that package. dpkg must be one of the things affected by this. Since we don't have BuildConflicts implemented

[Fink-devel] Re: Dependency of dpkg on perl580

2003-10-29 Thread jfm
On Oct 29, 2003, at 6:22 PM, jfm wrote: /sw/sbin/install-info: /sw/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory /sw/sbin/update-alternatives: /sw/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ~# grep '/sw/bin/perl' /sw/sbin/install-info /sw/sbin/update-alternatives /sw/sbin/ins