Re: perl5.005 installation structure

[John Lapeyre]

On 7 Oct 1998, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
torin>
torin>Yes, sorry I'm a bit slow; I'm working on buying a house.
torin>
torin>I do usually respond quicker to stuff in my inbox than just to list
torin>stuff.

Unacceptable! ;-)  I pulled perl 5.005 out of Incoming over 6 hrs.
ago.  (Actually, I am quite pleased to see responses so quickly :)   )

torin>/usr/lib/perl5 no longer contains *.pm files.  If you're using
torin>MakeMaker and/or pulling stuff from Config.pm, this shouldn't matter;
torin>stuff should just work.

Just wanted to make extra-special sure before I dig into my perl
packages, some of which need help bad in any  case.

John

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Re: perl5.005 installation structure

[Bart Schuller]

On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 01:47:51AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote:
>   Could you confirm or deny, that the /usr/lib/perl5 no longer
> contains *.pm files ? There seems to be some confusion, but on

If this is the case, then the list of packages that have to be changed
grows even larger: I suppose dpkg-perl for example installs into a
directory which is no longer searched by this version.

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Re: perl5.005 installation structure

[Darren/Torin/Who Ever...]

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John Lapeyre, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>   Ah, ... you are reading now.

Yes, sorry I'm a bit slow; I'm working on buying a house.

I do usually respond quicker to stuff in my inbox than just to list
stuff.

>   Could you confirm or deny, that the /usr/lib/perl5 no longer
>contains *.pm files ? There seems to be some confusion, but on

/usr/lib/perl5 no longer contains *.pm files.  If you're using
MakeMaker and/or pulling stuff from Config.pm, this shouldn't matter;
stuff should just work.

Note the following from INSTALL:
>The directories searched by version 5.005 will be
>
>   Configure variable  Default value
>   $archlib/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.005/archname
>   $privlib/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.005
>   $sitearch   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/archname
>   $sitelib/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005

>investigation at perl.org, it looks like this is really the case.  Then
>people will not wait for a bug fix which won't come because its not a bug.
I'm hoping to get to debian-devel tonight but I might not.  I'll get to
it tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at the latest.

>btw. Looks like some really cool stuff in the new perl.

Yes.  A relatively minor but rather useful one is that perldoc -f now
paginates.

Darren
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