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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken? Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:29:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5coivj$l88@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5chp2p$p2u@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34735 tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) 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. > anyone have a fix for this? What exactly does break with Perl 5? At least, i don't get a syntax error when feeding the script to it (but i didn't test more yet). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)