With all that in mind, I think I'm going to split the increasingly misnamed
get_perl_arch_dir() into perl_archname, perl_version and perl_binary.

Hell, it might even make sense to start a Fink::Perl class to hold all this.


On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:30:37AM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:
> There is one residual problem with all of this.  For backward
> compatibility, we are still storing files for non-versioned perl modules
> packages in /sw/lib/perl5 and /sw/lib/perl5/darwin.  However, the
> files in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin won't be found by perl 5.8.1.  To get
> around this, I'm thinking of having fink install a symlink
>   /sw/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level -> /sw/lib/perl5/darwin.
> Does this sound like a good idea?

I don't think so.  Anything in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin compiled for 5.6.0 won't
work with 5.8.1 because they're not binary compatible.


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