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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!agate!news.ucsc.edu!ese.UCSC.EDU!not-for-mail From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken? Date: 30 Jan 1997 23:08:27 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5cr9lb$59h@darkstar.ucsc.edu> References: <5chp2p$p2u@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <5coivj$l88@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ese.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-16colors PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34762 : > 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. I realize that, but I renamed it to perl4 and renamed perl5.002 to perl.. : > 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). I ran the makewhatis with 5.002 and it said somethin odd.. I'll look at it in the error logs again... it just core dumped on me in the /etc/weekly script though.. when I ran it separately it did something else.. it seemed fairly bizzare to me..