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Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.0 next to 5.5003
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 23:38:51 -0900
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Go to the top level of the perl port and type: use.perl port. That will set
up your system to use the new port instead. It writes to /etc/make.conf and
does some symlinks. You can go back by typing use.perl system.

Beech
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <admin@asarian-host.net>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: Perl 5.8.0 next to 5.5003


> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the earlier advice; I installed 5.8.0 neatly next to my 5.5003
> version. :)
>
> So, now I wonder, how do I tell a new package to install under 5.8.0, and

> not the old dirs? Would I be using,
>
>     /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.pl
>
> Instead of,
>
>     /usr/bin/perl Makefile.pl ?
>
> Would that suffice? I really do not want to clobber my old installation,
yet
> need to install many new packages in 5.8.0 as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Mark
>
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