On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Ken Simon wrote:
> It probably installed the perl binary to /usr/local/bin/perl, or
> something similar. Do a `which perl` and find out where your current
> perl is (probably /usr/bin/perl), and install perl to that prefix.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This isn't good advice, though it sounds like he already did it.
On most systems, a lot of scripts depend on and are tested against the
version of Perl that the vendor put at /usr/bin/perl. While newer
versions of Perl tend to have patches for bugs in earlier versions,
sometimes new bugs are introduced, or backwards compatibility with older
modules & scripts is broken. Replacing /usr/bin/perl opens the door to
all kinds of headaches that could easily be avoided if you just leave it
alone in the first place.
If you want a newer version of Perl than the one your operating system
provided, put it at /usr/local/bin/perl, write all your scripts against
your version there, and just pretend the stock version doesn't exist.
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Chris Devers
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