On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:03:32PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from:
> http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg
Done, and much appreciated. (The machine on which I have
just installed your dmg was giving all sorts of ridiculous
errors when attempting to install from source, so a gentle
thwack from an installer is very welcome.)
> It installs Perl, Berkeley DB 4.1.25, DB_File 1.42 and Time::HiRes
> 1.42 into /usr/local/perl5-8. You'll need to add
> /usr/local/perl5-8/bin
> to your path, probably in your .cshrc. Be warned: it's a 12M download.
But also prepare to be surprised at the width of pipe if you're using
a swift connection. 15 seconds for the 12MB here :-)
Might be worth mentioning here that @INC does not intersect the 5.6.0
Perl that comes with Mac OS X. For the record...
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% /local/perl5-8/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
[...]
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
Built under darwin
Compiled at Feb 5 2003 16:32:49
@INC:
/usr/local/perl5-8/Library/Perl/5.8.0/darwin
/usr/local/perl5-8/Library/Perl/5.8.0
/usr/local/perl5-8/Library/Perl/5.8.0/darwin
/usr/local/perl5-8/Library/Perl/5.8.0
/usr/local/perl5-8/Library/Perl
/usr/local/perl5-8/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.0/darwin
/usr/local/perl5-8/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.0
/usr/local/perl5-8/Network/Library/Perl
.
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Thanks again,
Paul
