Gentoo Archives: gentoo-perl

From: Steven Lembark <lembark@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] how it goes with perl 5.10
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:50:02
Message-Id: 494D4BE4.6040209@wrkhors.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-perl] how it goes with perl 5.10 by perl
1 > One problem is portage is removing old perl
2 > 5.8 modules when emerging new ones. I don't
3 > think this is needed, as long as @INC is correct.
4
5 Should be built properly via perl's normal make cycle.
6
7 Intention is to leave the old library in place to avoid
8 the user having to-rebuild everything from scratch every
9 time.
10
11 > Changing /usr/bin/perl to point to the right
12 > binary should be all that is needed, IIRC to
13 > get back 5.8... Anyway, (from what I know) an
14 > eselect perl thingy *should* be dead simple to
15 > make this easy for the user.
16
17 Yup: backing off the executable will run a perl with
18 the older @INC higher up in the versions.
19
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