Bug#3230: why the hell does perl depend on tcsh???
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
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> Carlos> Package: perl
> Carlos> Version: 5.002-10
> Carlos>
> Carlos> Version -7 didn't depend on tcsh. Why does this version depend? It
> Carlos> shouldn't, anyway.
>
> Perl needs tcsh for globbing. There were a couple of bug reports to that
> extend.
and someone suggested that we only have to #undef CSH in some file
so that perl does the globbing itself. I consider this as a bug,
too. we should be able to build a base system with a single shell!
jjm
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