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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 97 21:00:32 -0800
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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

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