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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!med.univ-tours.fr!univ-angers.fr!ciril.fr!news.imag.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!univ-bpclermont.fr!llaic!espel From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken? Date: 31 Jan 1997 21:10:16 GMT Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5ctn3o$ha1@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> References: <5chp2p$p2u@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <5coivj$l88@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34802 In article <5coivj$l88@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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. 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. Roger -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@ens.fr WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html