David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But that's a PITA. I'd much rather have been able to tell configure  
> *which* perl to use:

>    ./configure --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl5.8.6

The more usual way to handle this sort of thing is to put each version
of perl in a different directory, and then you can alter PATH while
running configure to pick which one you want.  I've got several versions
of perl on this machine that I select that way ... it doesn't require
any special smarts on the part of the perl-using program, and it scales
to handle multiple versions of other things like Tcl, too.

                        regards, tom lane

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