Date: Fri, 14 Nov 97 21:00:32 -0800 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "John-David Childs" <jdc@nterprise.net>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: perl on 2.2.5 Message-ID: <199711150500.VAA14510@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:50:32 -0700, John-David Childs wrote: >On Friday November 14, 1997, Daniel Leeds <dleeds@dfacades.com> > had this to say about "perl on 2.2.5": >> i notice perl is version 4 on 2.2.x which is fine. >> >> if i wish to compile perl 5.004_01 also, can i rename the /usr/bin/perl >> to perl4 and install perl5 in /usr/local without them clobbering each >> others necessary files?? > >I've actually been deleteing perl from /usr/bin and /usr/share/perl >since 2.1.7 and installing the latest version(s) of perl in /usr/local. > >There are a few system scripts that look for perl in /usr/bin, but a >symlink to /usr/local/bin/perl has worked flawlessly for me so far (knock >on silicon ;-) Yeah, I've done the same things, without problems. In fact, last night I stumbled on a way to prevent the old one from building during a make world, if anyone would care to comment. :) I went into /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin and edited the Makefile, deleting the perl subdirectory. Has anyone else used this technique? I could same myself some make world time by not building things I'm not going to need. Thanks, Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,168 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***
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