On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
The reason I've done it this way is because I have a set of perl
scripts and web apps that require a Perl environment that is
identical across several machines, including my PowerBook and a few
Linux servers.
I *HIGHLY* doubt that the difference in minor point versions is going
to break those scripts. It's possible, but very unlikely. Have you
verified that it definitely will break them, or are you just guessing
that it might?
What I would do in this situation is check to see if 5.8.6 is close
enough to develop with. If a script worked on one machine but not the
other, I'd dig through the 5.8.7 and 5.8.8 change logs to find
anything relevant to the problem.
Then and only then, if a version mismatch (rather than a mismatch
between env. variables, file locations, locale, etc...) were indeed
the problem, I would consider going to the trouble of installing a
newer Perl.
I've built Perl from source hundreds of times and I know the process
very well - but it's still time-consuming tedium that I'd rather
avoid unless it's truly necessary.
Sounds like the best approach is just to make my scripts/apps use /
usr/local/bin/perl on all of my machines.
Just for the sake of curiousity, I'd be interested in knowing what
Tiger's perl install includes beyond what is part of the core
perl-5.8.6. Anybody have a list somewhere?
Look around in /System/Library/Perl/Extras/
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