Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> It looks the the symlink /usr/bin/perl (to /usr/local/bin/perl) has >> >>> been removed at least on FreeBSD 10.3. See [1] for more information. >> >>> >> >>> [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING?r1=386270&r2=386269&pathrev=386270&diff_format=c > > Ah, I missed that. I guess that explains why nobody complained > about the problem sooner. > >> >>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> >> >>> --- >> >>> Tested with fbsd 10.3, kvm image. But I suppose it's the same as real >> >>> fbsd. >> >> >> >> Thanks; and we know that older (but not too old that we no longer care about) >> >> FreeBSD all have /usr/local/bin/perl? >> > >> > I'm no fbsd expert but from the first sentence in [1] "Perl has been >> > removed from base more than ten years ago..." I would assume it meant >> > "... removed from base, _to_ ports system" which means /usr/local for >> > all package installation (for ten years for perl). So I think we are >> > good. >> >> I guess we didn't follow through >> >> http://public-inbox.org/git/%3C20160720025630.GA71874%40plume%3E/ >> >> and allowed the thread to drift into a tangent? > > +Cc Dscho > > I've been meaning to followup on that, but had connectivity > problems to my VM last week. I still prefer we use numeric > comparisons for version numbers since numbers are... numeric. > IOW, I prefer we go with my original patch. I tend to agree with you if we have to do "systems older than this should use /usr/bin, others should use /usr/local/bin", but this different incarnation of the same topic seems to claim that older ones had /usr/local/bin forever anyway, and that was what made the patch interesting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html