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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly