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authorAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>2003-08-19 06:45:24 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-08-19 16:59:49 +0000
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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