If a port is set up such that multiple versions can be installed, the
binaries are named with a suffix such as <binary>-<version> (perl-5.10)
or <binary><version> (psql83).
If I want to indicate a default version I can make a link:
ln -s /opt/local/bin/perl-5.10 /opt/local/bin/perl
That way if my path has /opt/local/bin at the beginning, I can run perl
scripts with system perl using ./script.pl and with macports's perl-5.10
by using perl script.pl.
However, many ports, including perl, come with many binaries so making
appropriate links by hand would be tedious. How do macports users
normally get around this? Do people write scripts to make links
automatically for every binary that has a suffix? Does macports have
some feature that I am unaware of that makes this problem go away,
perhaps by setting an option at installation time to specify no suffix?
Duncan Hutty
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