Perl packaging guidelines

Emmanuel Seyman emmanuel at seyman.fr
Mon Aug 5 12:20:55 UTC 2013


* Petr Ĺ abata [05/08/2013 13:56] :
>
> This could only fail if perl isn't in the PATH (hard to imagine
> unless it's a bug).  In all other cases, it should work no
> matter where the binary is located.

I was thinking of :

- build-system tries to find the absolute path for 'perl'
- it finds /bin/perl instead of /usr/bin/perl
- this gets hardcoded in the package (shebang, documentation, ...)

I'll admit it's a nitpick but still...

Emmanuel



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