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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2012-11-20 18:08:54 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2012-11-20 18:08:54 +0000 |
commit | c5add2ea5067382269ae6f19e345fda0b9a7bd21 (patch) | |
tree | 02f512fda46d93079c9dc59c0d76f0e398150f83 /Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod | |
parent | 6c35e87bdc5a3f64833dbbc42e7d42e683db9d5b (diff) |
perl 5.16.2, compiled without optimization for Windows (from siep)
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@28315 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
Diffstat (limited to 'Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod index 00a40593a36..4bfe9741373 100644 --- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod +++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ specifically designed to be readable as is. =head1 NAME -README.freebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems +perlfreebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6. =head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD -perl 5.8.0 sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating -system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by reading -the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. FreeBSD has a bug where reading this -symlink sometimes returns an incorrect value +perl sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating +system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by using +C<sysctl> with C<KERN_PROC_PATHNAME> if that is supported, else by reading +the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. FreeBSD 7 and earlier has a bug where +either approach sometimes returns an incorrect value (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ). In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's argv[0] value for C<$^X>. |