Fresh perl install and amavisd-new

[Michael Ranner]

Am Donnerstag, 19. August 2004 18:21 schrieb Blaz Zupan:
> > Installation of Perl distribution is finished.  Please note, that
> > since Perl is also in the base system, this distribution will not
> > be used by default.
> >
> > #
> > # this ist not true on FreeBSD 5
> > #
>
> It *is* true. This distribution will not be used by default. If there is
> nothing in the base system, well you don't have a perl.

"Please note, that since Perl is also in the base system"

AFAIK there is no perl in the base system on FreeBSD 5, so this part of the 
pkg-message is not correct on FreeBSD 5. The part "This distribution will not 
be used by default" is correct. I know some users who are searching and 
asking me for the "hidden" perl in the base system on FreeBSD 5 because auf 
this pkg-message.

> > but perl -v works as expected.
>
> It does, but perl is *not* installed.

This is your, my and probably other FreeBSD experts opinion, but if some users 
may run perl in the command line and can write scripts with 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl the may think its "installed".

> There are dozens of ports that depend on perl 5.8 (or perl 5.6). Should
> every single one of them contain warnings in addition to the warnings being
> displayed by perl itself? If you try to install amavisd-new, it warns you
> that you need perl 5.8.X. So, you need to properly install it. If the
> instructions for perl installation are not good enough, then *they* should
> be fixed, not the instructions for every single port that depends on perl.
> Just IMHO.

Sure, amavisd-new was only one example. I think the pkg-message or other 
instructions for the perl ports should be updated for FreeBSD 5 or maybe the 
installation can be automated, if there is no other perl on the system, run 
use.perl port and make the necessary entries in /etc/make.conf automagically.

Thats why I posted also to perl at freebsd.org

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