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On Mon Oct 19 01:14:19 2009, nicholas wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 02:42:15PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > > > > On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Jesse via RT wrote: > > > > >On Tue Sep 22 21:31:51 2009, sprout@cpan.org wrote: > > >>In Snow Leopard, Apple replaced the scripts that come with perl > > >>(pod2html, perlbug, etc.) with wrappers that delegate to the script > > >>with the version number tacked on the end (pod2html5.8.9 or > > >>pod2html5.10.0 [Snow Leopard comes with two versions of perl]). All > > >>these wrappers are actually hard links to the same file. > > >> > > >>I was trying to install 5.10.1 over the system perl (with -Dprefix=/ > > >>usr), and, since the scripts already installed are all the same file, > > >>psed ended up being installed with a dozen different names, it being > > >>the last script to be installed. > > >> > > >>Shouldn?t installperl be unlinking files if they already exist? > > > > > >So, we talked about "don't do this" in this specific case, > > > > I actually consider the slight possibility of having to type ?sudo ln > > perl5.10.0 perl? some day far less painful than changing every script > > that begins with #!/usr/bin/perl -C. Anyway, I?ve seen some of Apple?s > > install code. It is simplistic enough it would probably run under > > 5.00. I don?t think it will break. > > I still don't think that we want to do this. > > Nicholas Clark > This ticket has generated no correspondence in nearly four years. Can we conclude that we do not want to modify installperl to delete files before copying (and thereby enable us to close the ticket)? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=69302Thread Previous