Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:39:35 +0200 (CEST) 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 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905111836280.696-100000@ws3.double-barrel.be> In-Reply-To: <19990511193354.A5035@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
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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 --- 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 <std/disclaimer.h> > 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
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