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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken?
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:29:07 GMT
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tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote:

> I noticed today that my /usr/bin/makewhatis is broken..
> Apparently it works under perl 4, but not the 5 that is part of the 
> freebsd 2.1.6.1 distribution..

Huh?  /usr/bin/perl is still Perl 4.

> anyone have a fix for this?

What exactly does break with Perl 5?  At least, i don't get a syntax
error when feeding the script to it (but i didn't test more yet).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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