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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:10:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        (Elliot Finley) <lists@efinley.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Q: Can I have two Perls?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000411091052.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <38f2f8ad.216414127@mail.afnetinc.com>

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On 10-Apr-00 Elliot Finley wrote:
> Is there a way that I can have two or possibly three perls
> installed
> on my system at once?
> 
> If possible, I would like to have 5.005 unthreaded, 5.6 unthreaded,
> and also 5.6 threaded.
> 
> I would like to be able to use the different versions just by
> changing
> the #! line... Maybe something like #!/usr/bin/perl55u,
>#!/usr/bin/perl56u, and #!/usr/bin/perl56t.
> 
> Is this possible?

Sure. On my 2.2.8-STABLE at home the locale stuff didn't work as
expected. So I installed a later perl in /usr/local/bin and still
have the old one in /usr/bin.
You just change the 1st line as you suggested!

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