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


Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:47:23 +0300
Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
perl vs perl5
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 ...





Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:41:19 -0400 (EDT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] perl vs perl5