perl vs perl5

From: Daniel Kalchev <daniel(at)digsys(dot)bg>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: perl vs perl5
Date: 1998-09-15 11:47:23
Message-ID: 199809151147.OAA14237@dcave.digsys.bg
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I have been wondering why the perl5 module is compiled using the

cd perl5 && perl Makefile.PL

command (in /var/src/local/pgsql/src/interfaces/Makefile)

Why perl and not perl5? :-)

On BSD/OS 'perl' is perl 4.0 and perl5 is separate binary. TO add to the
confustion, /usr/local/bin/perl is perl5 (symbolic link).

Do other platform have 'perl' binary is that is actually perl 5.0, but do not
have perl5 binary?

Maybe configure should test about perl version and proper binary?

Daniel

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