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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!kirin.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!relay.nuxi.com!obrien From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken? Date: 3 Feb 1997 08:25:15 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5d47db$46a$3@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5chp2p$p2u@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <5coivj$l88@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5ctn3o$ha1@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuxi.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970120] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34643 Roger Espel Llima <espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr> wrote: : >> I noticed today that my /usr/bin/makewhatis is broken.. : >> Apparently it works under perl 4, but not the 5 that is part of the : >> freebsd 2.1.6.1 distribution.. : > : >Huh? /usr/bin/perl is still Perl 4. : And is it going to be changed to perl 5 anytime soon? Perl 5 has been : out for something like 2 years now, and is just as stable as perl4 ever : was. As Joerg, said, nope. Perl 5 is just *too* big -- non-Perl lovers don't want to see it in the base system. HOWEVER, if you (or someone else) is a Perl hacker and wants to submit diffs to /usr/bin/makewhatis so that it works fine under Perl4 and Perl 5.003, I'm more than sure they would be commmited. I'm guessing it's not that hard of a job. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)