Hmmm... OK... Currently we get the fink directory into @INC by putting
/sw/lib/perl5 into PERL5LIB.  I suppose another possible implementation
here would be to include both /sw/lib/perl5 and /sw/lib/perl5/darwin
in PERL5LIB...

(Rebuilding perl for fink users isn't really a good option, if I understood
your suggestion correctly...)

  -- Dave


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:

> >>>>> "David" == David R Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> David> My symlink strategy would only apply to non-XS modules.  For XS modules,
> David> we make separate fink packages for each version, and properly store
> David> things in /sw/lib/perl5/5.x.y .
> 
> David> But for non-XS modules,
> 
> And for non-XS modules, there's a non-XS entry in the @INC.
> 
> David>  it shouldn't matter which version of perl is
> David> running it, right?  (as long as the module doesn't explicitly require
> David> a more recent version of perl than the one you have installed...)
> 
> It's still dangerous to collapse those.  Better to build the newer
> Perl that also looks at older directories, than to collapse the old
> and new directories.
> 



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