Re: /bin/perl vs. /usr/bin/perl

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> writes:

> On 01/11/14 14:52, lee wrote:
>> what's the proposed Debian way to deal with a different location of the
>> 'perl' executable?
>
> #! /usr/bin/env perl
>
>> Fedora has /bin/perl, Debian has /usr/bin/perl.  Since I still have
>> Fedora on the desktop and Debian on the VMs, I need compatibility.
>
> ... but I thought that on Fedora, /bin was turned into a symlink to
> /usr/bin in F17, so unless you've got some pre-F17 Fedora systems to
> care about, /usr/bin/perl should be fine on Fedora.

Thanks, it works fine this way --- just not the other way round.


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