Re: pkg/44089: lang/perl5: warnings from check_interpreter

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/44089: lang/perl5: warnings from check_interpreter
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:17:20 +0100

 On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:10:06AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 >  Those are harmless warnings, because of symbolic link to absolute paths and 
 > not resolvable
 >  until really installed to LOCALBASE.
 >  
 >  Maybe, it should be linked to relative path name.
 
 They are. The questions are:
 
 (1) Should we handle this automatically to warn correctly if the symlink
 is missing?
 (2) Should we ensure that the process to turn absolute symlinks into
 relative ones runs earlier?
 
 Joerg