On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote:

> On Wed Dec 26 10:33:28 2007, doughera wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote:
> > 
> > > > Given
> > that we
> > > > have decided that Perl 5.8 is the minimum version of Perl you need
> > to
> > > > build Parrot, is there *any* possibility that someone who gets to
> > this
> > > > point in configuration could still be running *only* perldoc
> > version 1?
> > 
> > Yes.  Absolutely.  I currently have 11 different versions of 'perl'
> > installed on my Solaris system.  The system one is perl5.005_03.  I
> > build
> > parrot with a later version of perl by explicitly calling the
> > appropriate
> > perl.  There is no guarantee that the first 'perldoc' you find in my
> > $PATH
> > is in fact associated with the 'perl' I am using to build parrot.
> > 
> 
> Okay, then I will leave intact the code handling the possibility of
> perldoc version 1.

Or, you could explicitly call the perldoc in $Config{scriptdir} instead of 
whatever random 'perldoc' happens to occur first in $PATH.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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