Re: [HACKERS] perl vs perl5

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Daniel Kalchev <daniel(at)digsys(dot)bg>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] perl vs perl5
Date: 1998-09-15 12:41:19
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.02.9809150840330.17822-100000@hub.org
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Daniel Kalchev wrote:

> 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?

Correct...I have /usr/bin/perl which is perl4, and
/usr/local/bin/perl, which is perl5 ...

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