On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 06:52:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > 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.
You mean something more like this? PATH=/path/to/perl:/usr/bin:/bin ./configure ... Sounds good, except when the perl people have in mind is on the same path as other perls. How would changing $PATH help with a situation like that? Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
