On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Ben Hines wrote:
perl5.8.4-core does not install /sw/bin/perl, but its Config.pm has: startperl='#!/sw/bin/perl'. This messes up my help2man package. I tell it PERL is /sw/bin/perl5.8.4 but then it asks for $Config{startperl} and perl says /sw/bin/perl. So it no work. I want it to use fink perl if its there.
Shouldn't fink perl584 be configured with /sw/bin/perl5.8.4 as the startpath?
(from perl's configure) What shall I put after the #! to start up perl ("none" to not use #!)? [/sw/bin/perl]
-Ben
Packaging perl for fink has been a tricky problem. Basically, perl is not designed with the idea that a system would have more than one perl installation on it at a time.
I've tried to compile perl with the same compile-time options as Apple uses (other than the prefix), to increase the chances of compatibility. But then, to avoid having various fink-installed perls stomp on each other, /sw/bin/perl itself is separated out to a package of its own (perl584, in the case being discussed).
I'm assuming that if you have complied something with perl 5.8.4, you don't want it to be accidentally run with perl 5.8.0, right? So perhaps your package should Depend on perl584, not just perl584-core.
-- Dave
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