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>On Wednesday 14 March 2007 14:41:55 Michael Galassi wrote: |
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>> Could someone share with me a man page or google search which will help |
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>> me install multiple versions of perl on an up-to-date gentoo system? I |
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>> tried emerge -a =3Ddev-lang/perl-5.8.4-r4 and a few similar commands but |
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>> to no avail. |
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>Perl has never been slotted. Therefore installing more than one version of |
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>perl is far from trivial. So while I can tell you how to get perl-5.8.4-r4 |
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>which was removed from the tree 1 1/2 years ago it will not be able to coexist |
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>with perl-5.8.8-r2. Why would you want to do that? |
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I wouldn't :-). I'd personally be quite happy with no perl on my |
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workstation at all. Unfortunately one of our developers insists on |
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doing bizarre perlish things that require the older version (the same one |
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that ships with MontaVista Linux) so our development boxes are now |
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straddled with this other perl. I'll probably end up installing it |
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outside of the normal portage framework (/opt/perl) and hack paths to |
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make it work. Sigh. |
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-michael |
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