On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
So my question is ... what is the best way to make sure my new
install (in /usr/local/) has everything the OS expects?
Leave /usr/bin/perl alone, and write your own scripts with #!/usr/
local/bin/perl.
Can I just install a few extra CPAN modules and make the OS happy
Why do that, when it's trivially simple to avoid making it unhappy
to begin with?
What do the rest of you do?
I use 5.8.6. My scripts run fine with it, and why fix what ain't
broke?
Thanks for the suggestions.
The reason I've done it this way is because I have a set of perl
scripts and web apps that require a Perl environment that is
identical across several machines, including my PowerBook and a few
Linux servers. Sounds like the best approach is just to make my
scripts/apps use /usr/local/bin/perl on all of my machines.
Just for the sake of curiousity, I'd be interested in knowing what
Tiger's perl install includes beyond what is part of the core
perl-5.8.6. Anybody have a list somewhere?
Thanks,
Ray
