On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:40 -0500, Hotz, Harry wrote: > I have a new AIX 5.3 server that comes with a default Perl 5.82. > I have a DB2 programmer that has scripts from an old AIX 4.3 server that > used Perl 5.005_03. He will have to rewrite his scripts to use the new > Perl and asked me to install the old version side by side. I did so in a > directory and compiled it successfully. He took the user > account under which the scripts are executing and added a path to the > profile to point to the location of the old Perl but when he uses it and > does a perl -version he still gets a return of the 5.8 version. He feels > this is a guarantee that his scripts will be hitting the wrong version > and wants to know why he cannot version query the old Perl. > > My question is it even possible to successfully work with two
PATH=/usr/lpp/oldperl:$PATH rather than the normal PATH=$PATH:/usr/lpp/oldperl then he prefixes every command with `perl <script>` As others have pointed out the #! normally points to /usr/bin/perl and if you cannot prefix calls with perl then you have to change that. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
