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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
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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.
> 
> --
> Yiorgos Adamopoulos         -- #include <std/disclaimer.h>
> adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr     -- Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, NTUA
> 
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