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Christopher Nehren apeiron+usenet at coitusmentis.info
Mon May 9 13:18:19 PDT 2005


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On 2005-05-09, Jonathan Weiss scribbled these
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> That resolved the problem. automake had perl-5.8.5 in the shebang-line 
> while I had 5.8.6 installed. Why does automake hardcode the perl version?

Because the developers aren't too bright. If they were, the autotools
wouldn't give FreeBSD users splitting headaches every time they try to
use them outside of the ports tree.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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