Re: Path to Perl

[mindless (Alan Harder)]

ouch.  resisting urge to flame.

> When I ran setup it insisted on finding Perl in /usr/dist instead of in
> /opt/PERL even though the new version was at the front of my PATH.
> I got around it by umounting /usr/dist. Wouldn't it be nice if it used the
> PATH to find Perl instead of just assuming that if there's Perl in /usr/dist,
> that's the one to use.

yes, wouldn't it be nice.. wait a minute!  it is!

echo "Locating Perl 5..."
for cmd in perl5 perl
do
        for dir in `echo $PATH | sed -e 's/:/ /g'`
        do

As you can see it is checking your PATH and there is no hardcoded "/usr/dist".
However, it looks for "perl5" before just "perl".  This could be your problem.
Do you have /opt/PERL/perl5?
/usr/dist/exe/perl5 exists which is why it finds it first.

	- Alan
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