I've been lurking, but I have some experience building and rebuilding other packages. What I also look at is the timestamp on the files to see if the installation process is putting everything out there, or there was some old stuff hanging around. In particular:
ls -l `which <newly installed executable>` Just lets me know where the install is dropping things. At 9:59AM -0700 9/23/02, Brian McNett wrote: >On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 09:44 AM, Jerry LeVan wrote: > >> Hmm, you might try retargeting the build to something like /usr/local. >> I have perl 5.6 and 5.8 coexisting. I have built Perl/Tk in 5.8 and it seems >> to be working fine. > >Well, that is what I *thought* I'd done: > >bash-2.05a-bmcnett /usr/local/bin$ ls -l perl >-rwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 21560 Sep 22 20:14 perl > >so, Perl exists in that location... but: > >bash-2.05a-bmcnett /usr/local/bin$ which perl >/usr/bin/perl > >bash-2.05a-bmcnett /usr/local/bin$ /usr/bin/perl -v > >This is perl, v5.8.0 built for darwin > >and... > >bash-2.05a-bmcnett /usr/local/bin$ /usr/local/bin/perl -v > >This is perl, v5.8.0 built for darwin > >OUCH. > >--B -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edward Lewis +1-703-227-9854 ARIN Research Engineer
