perl links

[Chuck Swiger]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Aiza wrote:
> When installing perl i see 2 links between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. Is this still required or is it something left over from when perl was part of the base system?
> 
> symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl
> symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl5

This is to compensate for Perl scripts which assume they know where the path to the interpreter is, rather than using env....

Regards,
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-Chuck