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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod index 77c297bec6d..00a40593a36 100644 --- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod +++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perlfreebsd.pod @@ -24,20 +24,12 @@ which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6. perl 5.8.0 sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by reading -the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. There is a bug on FreeBSD, where the -result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances +the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. FreeBSD has a bug where reading this +symlink sometimes returns an incorrect value (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ). In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's argv[0] value for C<$^X>. -=head2 Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD" - -Not as bad as it sounds--what this means is that Perl will no longer be -part of the B<kernel build system> of FreeBSD. Perl will still very -probably be part of the "default install", and in any case the latest -version will be in the ports system. The first FreeBSD version this -change will affect is 5.0, all 4.n versions will keep the status quo. - =head1 AUTHOR Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic |