>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ken> I think this would work well. It's quite possible to have several
Ken> versions of perl installed at once, with different library trees
Ken> (site_perl). The choice of which one to execute would just depend on
Ken> the PATH. ("Just", he says glibly.)
The PATH doesn't affect sh-bang lines though. Or Makefiles that
specifically say /usr/bin/perl. I've found that for any reasonable
meaning of "having a newer Perl on my system", I've got to build it
PREFIXed /opt/perl/5.7.3, then symlink all /opt/perl/5.7.3/bin/* to
/usr/local/bin, then finally (dangerous part) cp
/opt/perl/5.7.3/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.
If any script breaks because of that, you can change *its* shebang
line to #!/usr/bin/perl5.6.0 to get to Apple's original version.
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