On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:28:06AM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote:
> > Andy Dougherty, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >>
> >> After some thought, I think I'd recommend that perl5.005_xx retain the
> >> same directory structure that perl5.
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> [ perl5.005_02's default library is now /usr/lib/perl5/perl5.005,
> and might change with 5.006, etc.]
>
> > Any idea how to handle this properly ? Maybe we need a sort of perl
> > policy : package will have to install
e current perl version ? But
> this does not solve all problems... Better idea ?
Yes. Perl itself knows where it is installed. Install .pm things into
$Config{'privlib'}. From the shell command line, you can get this
same information with /usr/bin/perl -V:privlib.
Andy Dougherty
king, and they will need to be replaced
too. (I suppose one could draw upon the a.out->ELF or libc5-libc6
experience to try to make a smooth transition, but I'm not sure it'd be
worth it.)
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
rs *want* to upgrade their stable systems to 5.004_04 is
another question, and it probably has different answers depending on
whether or not the users run suid scripts vulnerable to the buffer
overflow or whether they want the absolute stability of sticking with
5.003_07.
Andy Dougherty [E
xact. Perl5 is pretty forgiving,
and tries hard to print what you want, but doesn't always succeed.
2. The tests are running on a buggy pentium :-).
> Fernando, I unfortunately have no idea what is causing this. Please
> provide a short script which shows this behaviour (reliably i
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