use Perl

• Re: Perl installation "best" practices (Score:1)

  by dws (341)

  Great instructions, though they reflect 5.6.1 rather than 5.8. Did you use these instructions (with appropriate substitutions) for 5.8?
  
  • Re: Perl installation "best" practices (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    Thanks; I hoped someone would find them useful. Yeah, I need to update for 5.8

    Yes, I did use these for 5.8 this morning; I was HTML-izing them as I watched the test suite run in another window.

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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
• config script (Score:1)

  by petdance (2468)

  With all these 5.8.0 release candidates, I set up a script that I adapted from one Abigail [perl.org] gave me. Makes it much easier than sitting thru all the questions.

  ./Configure \
      -des \
      -Uversiononly \
      -Dmydomain=.petdance.com \
      -Dcf_email=andy@petdance.com \
      -Dperladmin=andy@petdance.com \
      -Doptimize=-g \
      -Dusemorebits \
      -Dusedevel \
      -Dusenm=false \
      -Darchlib=$version_dir/lib/$version

  --
  

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  xoa
  • Re:config script (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    Abigail is the queen of multiple installs

    Yeah, that /opt tree at YAPC was something to behold.

    Maybe that means Abigail gets to benefit from my one and only patch to perl: a fix to MakeMaker that allowed you to do perl5.6.1 Makefile.PL instead of having to /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1 Makefile.PL. I kind of like multiple installs myself, and that was one of the first things I ran into.

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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers