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]