[Pdx-pm] maintaining your own perl tree
Peter Scott
Peter at PSDT.com
Wed Aug 27 09:08:09 PDT 2008
At 01:18 AM 8/27/2008, Allison Randal wrote:
>If you compile your perl in some custom location (/usr/local or
>/opt/perl), and make sure it knows to respond to '#!/usr/bin/perl' on
>the shebang line (it's a configuration option when compiling perl, the
>shebang line doesn't have to match the path),
What option is that? I'm only familiar with the one that tells it to
overwrite /usr/bin/perl in addition to building somewhere else.
>then all you have to do is change your PATH environment variable so
>/usr/local/bin (or /opt/perl/5.8.8/bin) comes before /usr/bin, and
>you'll always get your compiled perl instead of the vendor's perl,
>while the rest of the system will get the vendor's perl.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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http://www.perlmedic.com/
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