Re: Perl 5.8.0
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:03:17AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:37:43PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >You have a locally compiled perl in /usr/local, but you need to ensure
> >that the Debian perl packages are still used when running package
> >maintainer scripts, or they won't be able to find Debianized perl
> >modules like those in debconf. Removing /usr/local/bin from $PATH is
> >probably the easiest approach.
>
> Note that the perl installation process also offers to make a
> /usr/bin/perl symlink when the binary is installed elsewhere (such as
> under /usr/local).
Oh yes, I forgot about that. IIRC a patch went by perl5-porters a little
while back to make -Uinstallusrbinperl the default. I think it might
even have been applied to bleadperl.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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