Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: correct perl path on FreeBSD

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > about the problem sooner.
> >
> >> >>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> >> >>> ---
> >> >>>  Tested with fbsd 10.3, kvm image. But I suppose it's the same as real
> >> >>>  fbsd.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks; and we know that older (but not too old that we no longer care about)
> >> >> FreeBSD all have /usr/local/bin/perl?
> >> >
> >> > I'm no fbsd expert but from the first sentence in [1] "Perl has been
> >> > removed from base more than ten years ago..." I would assume it meant
> >> > "... removed from base, _to_ ports system" which means /usr/local for
> >> > all package installation (for ten years for perl). So I think we are
> >> > good.
> >> 
> >> I guess we didn't follow through
> >> 
> >>     http://public-inbox.org/git/%3C20160720025630.GA71874%40plume%3E/
> >> 
> >> and allowed the thread to drift into a tangent?
> >
> > +Cc Dscho
> >
> > I've been meaning to followup on that, but had connectivity
> > problems to my VM last week.  I still prefer we use numeric
> > comparisons for version numbers since numbers are... numeric.
> > IOW, I prefer we go with my original patch.
> 
> I tend to agree with you if we have to do "systems older than this
> should use /usr/bin, others should use /usr/local/bin", but this
> different incarnation of the same topic seems to claim that older
> ones had /usr/local/bin forever anyway, and that was what made the
> patch interesting.

I dug around the freebsd history (git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git)
(~1.5G) and the 3.x and 4.x releases with perl in base still contained
many references to /usr/local/bin/perl

It also seems FreeBSD 2.x releases were also perl-less in base;
so yes, I'm alright with Duy's patch :)