using use.perl
Gary Schenk
gwschenk at socal.rr.com
Fri Oct 3 11:04:23 PDT 2003
I'm running 4.7-RELEASE as my home desktop. I've compiled perl 5.8 from
the ports. It was installed in /usr/local/bin/perl.
After that installation # perl -v resulted in perl, version 5.005_3
# /usr/local/bin/perl -v resulted in perl, v 5.8.0
If I call /usr/local/bin/perl in my scripts, I realize that the new
version will be used.
However after running the command # use.perl port, I wonder if old
scripts that call /usr/bin/perl will be interpreted under v 5.8.0.
If there was a symbolic link placed between /usr/local/bin/perl and
/usr/bin/perl which version would be used?
Thanks for straightening out my confusion.
Gary Schenk
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list