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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-06-08 20:45:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-06-08 20:45:25 +0000 |
| commit | 6d4a0282255e6badc62c5f3bdb8d0db9a8ae6f64 (patch) | |
| tree | f79f188e57aaf9f0d6b09f9ffaea2df2901073d8 /README.freebsd | |
| parent | 695dea50d5eb592af5e365802ac8278451e01f13 (diff) | |
| download | perl-6d4a0282255e6badc62c5f3bdb8d0db9a8ae6f64.tar.gz | |
Mention the FreeBSD Perl policy change.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17116
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diff --git a/README.freebsd b/README.freebsd index e147c66843..36d6bf1fc9 100644 --- a/README.freebsd +++ b/README.freebsd @@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances 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 more be part of "base FreeBSD" + +Not as bad as it sounds--what is means is that Perl will no more 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 |