On 26/7/02 at 13:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote: > > On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 01:40 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > > Can you elaborate on your preferred method that you've mentioned? > dyld > > is rather persistent on Mac OS X with 5.8.0. It is not overwritten > in a > > 5.8.0 install, so any advice appreciated :-) > > I'm not sure I understand. Why would dyld need to be changed?
>From a previous post to this list (and perl5 porters): "make install in Mac OS X doesn't always overwrite the Perl Shared library, which means that the old binarily incompatible version survives and that...refers to the Obsolete symbols" > > (Also remembering `rm -rf /Library/Perl' will only delete stuff > > _outside_ of other directories; i.e. only in top-level > > /Library/Perl). > > Not true. The -r flag means "recursive". The -r flag, as well as being recursive, also asks as it comes to each directory whether you would like to overwrite permissions thereby allowing you to discriminate as to which directory to rm. Regards, Phil.
