Re: 0.56 and perl location

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Author: Chris Thompson
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: neal, exim-users
Subject: Re: 0.56 and perl location
Philip Hazel writes:

> Not on our Solaris systems it ain't. We don't have /usr/local at all,
> and perl is in /opt/gnu/bin/perl, but there's a link from /bin/perl.


The symlink /bin/perl here is very much a local decision, Phil. We wanted
a standard name for putting in #! lines that wouldn't keep changing with
Unix flavour-of-the-month. But /usr/local/bin/perl is the common thing to
find in imported Perl scripts.

As for whether one should ever use /usr/local in Solaris 2... that is a
question which starts flame wars...

I certainly wouldn't recommend /opt/gnu/bin/perl as a standard to anyone!
Indeed, it wouldn't have been done that way here if I had had my way...

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