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From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken?
Date: 30 Jan 1997 23:08:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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: > 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.

I realize that, but I renamed it to perl4 and renamed perl5.002 to perl..

: > 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).

I ran the makewhatis with 5.002 and it said somethin odd..
I'll look at it in the error logs again... it just core dumped on me in 
the /etc/weekly script though.. when I ran it separately it did something 
else..
it seemed fairly bizzare to me..