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| author | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> | 2003-08-19 06:45:24 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-08-19 16:59:49 +0000 |
| commit | b66c6cec6ebda7d4920cba326c1ecf20cc6d4e5a (patch) | |
| tree | a8c404fecc93010e2727732270662b58b1356834 /INSTALL | |
| parent | c272d378c52f543d764909751ce708de03235bb8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b66c6cec6ebda7d4920cba326c1ecf20cc6d4e5a.tar.gz | |
Re: [perl #23304] Installing perl breaks redhat-config scripts[was: New (well known) printer won't install in RH-9]
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@@ -319,7 +319,15 @@ It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary. Be especially careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your -vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. +vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. If you insist +on replacing your vendor's perl, useful information on how it was +configured may be found with + + perl -V:config_args + +(Check the output carefully, however, since this doesn't preserve +spaces in arguments to Configure. For that, you have to look +carefully at config_arg1, config_arg2, etc.) By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to the current version of perl. You can turn on that behavior by running |