Re: perl5.005 installation structure
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John Lapeyre, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> Ah, ... you are reading now.
Yes, sorry I'm a bit slow; I'm working on buying a house.
I do usually respond quicker to stuff in my inbox than just to list
stuff.
> Could you confirm or deny, that the /usr/lib/perl5 no longer
>contains *.pm files ? There seems to be some confusion, but on
/usr/lib/perl5 no longer contains *.pm files. If you're using
MakeMaker and/or pulling stuff from Config.pm, this shouldn't matter;
stuff should just work.
Note the following from INSTALL:
>The directories searched by version 5.005 will be
>
> Configure variable Default value
> $archlib /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.005/archname
> $privlib /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.005
> $sitearch /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/archname
> $sitelib /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
>investigation at perl.org, it looks like this is really the case. Then
>people will not wait for a bug fix which won't come because its not a bug.
I'm hoping to get to debian-devel tonight but I might not. I'll get to
it tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at the latest.
>btw. Looks like some really cool stuff in the new perl.
Yes. A relatively minor but rather useful one is that perldoc -f now
paginates.
Darren
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