Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Re: perl 500404 with Expect 1.15

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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:41:20 +0200
Roland Giersig <RGi...@CP...> wrote:

> > >> If only life were so simple....I have the power to perform the
> > >> upgrade but there are dependencies on this perl.  I don't know what
> > >> they are....
> > >
> > >   Oh, ho, ho. :)   You need my super-special means of running many
> > >   perls at once trick.  Compile with --prefix=/usr/local/perl561. 
> > >   Make symlinks from everything in /usr/local/perl561/bin EXCEPT
> > >   /usr/local/perl561/bin/perl into/usr/local/bin.  Then write your
> > >   programs explicitly with:#!/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1
> > > or
> > > #!/usr/[local/]?bin/perl5.00502
> > >
> > >   Then your programs don't break on upgrades and you can easily
> > >   remove a version as a unit if and when you upgrade all programs
> > >   that used it.
> > 
> > I must be missing something obvious.... How will this co-exist
> > with the the current /usr/local/bin/perldoc etc.??
> 
> Well, it won't.  But as you won't be doing development under the old
> perl, you won't need its user dpcumentation, i.e. the old perldoc.  The
> same goes for perlbug and perlcc (probably).  So you can replace those
> three with the new version.  Alternatively you might consider changing
> all the #! lines in the old scripts to point at perl5.00404 instead of
> just perl.


For now the new scripts will point to the new perl, thanks
for the ideas. 





> 
> Hope this clears things up.
> 
> Roland