Bug 211058 – dev-perl/Data-ShowTable - wrong perl path in /usr/bin/showtable

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ross Drummond 2008-02-22 03:23:58 UTC]

Package: dev-perl/Data-ShowTable. The sha-bang line in the front end script /usr/bin/showtable calls /usr/bin/perl5 which does not exist on my computer.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
-bash: /usr/bin/showtable: /usr/bin/perl5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory


I have created the following link as a work-around which clears the error;

ln -s /usr/bin/perl5.8.8 /usr/bin/perl5

Out-put of "ls /usr/bin/perl*" prior to creating this link is;

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Nov 19 23:52 /usr/bin/perl -> perl5.8.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   13301 Apr 17  2007 /usr/bin/perl-cleaner
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1104128 Nov 19 23:52 /usr/bin/perl5.8.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   37274 Nov 19 23:52 /usr/bin/perlbug
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   17953 Nov 19 23:52 /usr/bin/perlcc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     224 Nov 19 23:52 /usr/bin/perldoc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   11931 Nov 19 23:52 /usr/bin/perlivp

[Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2008-08-26 13:34:18 UTC]

Fixed. Thanks