On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:53 , Sherm Pendley wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:20 PM, ellem wrote:
>
>> I wonder if an upgrade will bring my Perl to 5.6.0 again (which wouldn't
>> be the worst thing that ever happened to my Perl install)
>
> That depends on where you installed your copy.
>
> If you overwrote the factory copy, then as upgrade will overwrite your
> copy. If you installed your copy elsewhere, such as /sw or /opt for
> example, the upgrade won't harm your copy.
which leads me to the question about
installing perl in the 'traditional' (????)
/usr/local
as I just noticed that the factory install
of perl set up a config that seems to have
allowed me to stomp on /usr/bin/head since
it is installing into /usr/bin....
ciao
drieux
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