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From: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@double-barrel.be>
To: Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: latest Perl
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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
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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.
> 
> --
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> adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr     -- Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, NTUA
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