Well, all the perls in /usr/bin are from days ago, so wherever active
state put perl, it was not in /usr/bin.  On my other Mac it is in /opt,
but not on my MacAir

On 10/19/09 4:44 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> On 10/19/09 4:25 PM, James Rome wrote:
> > Ah. 5.8.9 was installed. Setting the path to /usr/bin/perl5.8.9 fixed
> > Commander.
>
> Although if things continue to work in general (fink or otherwise) after
> overwriting /usr/bin/perl with ActivePerl, you'll be very lucky indeed.
>  Overwriting system stuff is *never* a good idea, and on OSX,
> /usr/bin/perl was a very special tool that handles 32/64-bit plugins in
> a somewhat clean way, as well as choosing perl versions and such like
> your properties-changing was supposed to handle.
>
> If ActivePerl overwrote /usr/bin/perl, all that magic is gone now.  It
> would be a good idea to try to get it back to some semblance of how the
> system was installed...
>


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