On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 03:08 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 26/7/02 at 13:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote: > >> On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 01:40 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>> Can you elaborate on your preferred method that you've mentioned? dyld >>> is rather persistent on Mac OS X with 5.8.0. It is not overwritten >>> in a >>> 5.8.0 install, so any advice appreciated :-) >> >> I'm not sure I understand. Why would dyld need to be changed? > > From a previous post to this list (and perl5 porters): > > "make install in Mac OS X doesn't always overwrite the Perl Shared > library, > which means that the old binarily incompatible version survives and > that...refers to the Obsolete symbols" Yeah, but that's not 'dyld', it's 'libperl'. >>> (Also remembering `rm -rf /Library/Perl' will only delete stuff >>> _outside_ of other directories; i.e. only in top-level >>> /Library/Perl). >> >> Not true. The -r flag means "recursive". > > The -r flag, as well as being recursive, also asks as it comes to each > directory whether you would like to overwrite permissions thereby > allowing you to discriminate as to which directory to rm. Well yeah, but you had the -f flag too, which means "don't do that." Anyway, this discussion is probably best had between a man page and a set of eyeballs, not between us and the list. -Ken
