From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 11 9:50: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from angel.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96426159F9 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 09:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvergall@double-barrel.be) Received: from ws3.double-barrel.be (ws3.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.30]) by angel.double-barrel.be (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA05732; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:41:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ws3.double-barrel.be (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA00698; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:39:35 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ws3.double-barrel.be: mvergall owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:39:35 +0200 (CEST) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: Yiorgos Adamopoulos Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: latest Perl In-Reply-To: <19990511193354.A5035@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nope.. simply compile and install it in /usr/local/ then the apps that need the new perl can use /usr/local/bin/perl as the call to perl istead of /usr/bin/perl advantage of this is that your current stuff keeps on working. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Tue, 11 May 1999, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: > OK, Perl is in system, but what if one wants a newer version of Perl > (*replacing* the current one?). > > Now why should one want this ...maybe because newer modules scream for things > that are now bundled with the latest stable.tar.gz of Perl for instance. > > -- > Yiorgos Adamopoulos -- #include > adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr -- Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, NTUA > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message