A couple of comments on this thread: 1) Fred Sanchez wrote a revised darwin.sh for perl in the fall, which was accepted into the perl tree. I believe that it essentially implements what Chris did. We should follow it. (Links to the document were in my previous post.)
2) By convention, the user-modifiable portion of the Fink tree is /sw/etc. So I think we should create /sw/etc/perl/5.6.0 and /sw/etc/perl/5.8.0 and symlink them back into the /sw/lib/perl trees that we are making. That way perl finds them, but users only write to /sw/etc. 3) We are going to need separate Fink packages for 5.6 perl modules and 5.8 perl modules. We are going to need a way to build a 5.6 perl module when 5.8 is installed, and vice versa. Seems to me that we'll probably have binaries called /sw/bin/perl56 and /sw/bin/perl58, and that those will be called by name when the perl module is compiled. (So these packages may have "BuildDepends: perl56" or "BuildDepends: perl58".) You might have a "jumbo" perl mod package for Fink which built both a 5.6 version and a 5.8 version, so that whichever perl the user was using, he or she got the correctly compiled module. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
