On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote: > > On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 03:55 PM, David H. Adler wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:40:51PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote: > >> > >>On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 03:02 PM, David H. Adler wrote: > >>>So, a) anyone have any idea how to grow a new, workable fink.conf? > >>> b) If I rebuild Storable in fink, isn't it now not going to work > >>>for > >>> the /usr/bin/perl (i.e. 5.6.0 from apple)? > >> > >>Right, you need two different versions of Storable, one for 5.6.x, and > >>the other for 5.8.x. > > > >Will fink allow you to keep two different versions? If so, how? I am > >bamfoozled. But I'm coming off a long week... > > It would just be by adding different library directories when compiling > the two different versions of Perl.
Well... I thought I did that. Then 5.6.0 started giving me dyld errors. I've now ditched all of /Library/Perl (which is where I put all the 5.8.0 stuff) and it works again. Which is odd, as @INC should have looked in /System/Library/Perl for 5.6.0... > >>> c) Wouldn't this all work better if the perl scripts fink uses just > >>> used a '-I /sw/lib/perl5' themselves? > >> > >>That's supposed to be set with a "setenv PERL5LIB ..." at login time, > >>which happens if you put "source /sw/bin/init.csh" in your .login file. > > > >What I meant was *not* at login, but when fink itself actually needs it. > >I.e., instead of having fink's Storable be in use always, just have it > >be used when *fink* is using it. > > > >Maybe there's some good reason for it, but I don't know what it is. > > Oh, I see. I think the reason it doesn't do that is that Fink can be > used to install things like Storable, GD, PDL, etc. so that they're used > by other applications than just Fink. I've installed PDL that way, for > instance. So I consider /sw/lib/perl5/ just another directory for > /usr/bin/perl to search through, not a Fink-apps-only directory. Even so, should it really be the *first* thing in @INC for everything? > >Also, pudding. > > Of course. But not what the media calls "pudding"! Well, no, of course not. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen - Leon Brocard, London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19 (This has *something* to do with http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645)
