bin/perl5 gone?

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 30 10:11:59 UTC 2019


On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 03:22:42AM +0000, John Hein wrote:
> It looks like perl5.30 removed the bin/perl5.  The following is in lang/perl5.28/Makefile but not lang/perl5.30/Makefile
> 
>        ${LN} -sf perl ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/perl5
> 
> Just wondering why.  This breaks scripts (third party if not any in /usr/local) that have perl5 in the shebang.  

I removed it last year in the perl5-devel port, I checked all over the
ports tree, it was never used, and looking on the interwebs,
considered non standard, and should not be used.

So, I am not sure if I should put it back.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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