At 09:56 -0400 10/16/03, Vic Norton wrote: >I have recently installed Perl 5.8.0 on my iMac via "PortsManager" from >DarwinPorts <http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/>. Perl 5.8.0 >resides in the "/opt/local/bin" directory, and this directory is at the >beginning of $PATH. Everything works well except that BBEdit seems rather >confused.
BBEdit is almost surely executing perl 5.6 and it's probably because of a hard coded path. I had 5.8 running, with some difficulty, over a year ago from the CPAN distribution and it is in /opt/. But I had to remove 5.6 from the other directories. It was an interesting experience while I learned about gzip and tar to preserve my options. You'll be OK after that so long as the link in /usr/bin/perl points to the new version. Some have complained about Apple's installer requiring the old perl 5.6 but it has never bitten me. -- --> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't <--
