Re: Suggestion: Which Binary?

[David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 15:52, Tom Lane wrote:

> The more usual way to handle this sort of thing is to put each version
> of perl in a different directory, and then you can alter PATH while
> running configure to pick which one you want.  I've got several  
> versions
> of perl on this machine that I select that way ... it doesn't require
> any special smarts on the part of the perl-using program, and it  
> scales
> to handle multiple versions of other things like Tcl, too.

I would normally do that, as well, but in this case, I wanted my self- 
compiled Perl to always be what runs (as a general rule), so I had it  
hard link itself in /usr/bin as well as /usr/local/bin. It is only in  
this one case where I need the stock Perl to be found that things get  
wonky for me. :-)

Best,

David