Perl update question

talsamon · May 14, 2015

The path to perl seemed changed from /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl. Some scripts don't work. I can't change every she-bang to the right path.
But I am unsecure, with link I should set. The are three possibilites:
/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/perl5
or
directrly to
/usr/bin/perl5-5.20

talsamon · May 14, 2015

Was a to less exact. Some scripts only work if I change the she-bang line to /usr/local/bin/perl - and that is not logical. I don't how many script are problematic and if I should set a link.

talsamon · May 14, 2015

It's clear the above mentioned three files seems the same - solved.

kpa · May 14, 2015

Ports and packages are no longer allowed to modify /usr/bin (or any other part of the base system), that's why the perl path was changed.

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING?r1=386270&r2=386269&pathrev=386270&diff_format=c

wblock@ · May 14, 2015

Use

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

kpa · May 14, 2015

getopt said:
This does not work in perl5.20 anymore.
Have to use instead:

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

Also /usr/local/bin/cpanp disappeared.

Works fine for me with

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

and perl version 5.20. You sure you have /usr/local/bin on your $PATH ?

Oko · May 15, 2015

wblock@ said:
Use

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

Somebody is using too much Bash and Linux

At OP. What is the problem with creating the symbolic link

ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl

wblock@ · May 15, 2015

Oko said:
Somebody is using too much Bash and Linux

Nothing to do with either, just a simple, standard solution that fixes the problem this thread is about.

abishai · May 15, 2015

kpa said:
Ports and packages are no longer allowed to modify /usr/bin (or any other part of the base system)

All ports? I rely on /etc/ssl/cert.pem symlink CA-bundle makes.

kpa · May 15, 2015

abishai said:
All ports? I rely on /etc/ssl/cert.pem symlink CA-bundle makes.

Can you test if your applications continue to work without that symlink? I do remember a discussion on the mailing lists that the base system OpenSSL would use the certificate bundle from ports if installed without creating the symlink in /etc/ssl.

abishai · May 15, 2015

Yes, with configuration pointed to new ca file location. But it would be surprise if symlink just vanished after port upgrade, I noticed this thread by accident

wblock@ · May 15, 2015

which(1) looks in the path, too. As far as cron(8), see #2 in The Interrupted Unix FAQ.