Re: Path to Perl

[Carlo Ferroni <carlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Funny enough I had the same EXACT problem today and the easy way out was to
hack the Setup script and just change
 
for cmd in perl5 perl
to
for cmd in perlIDontWantThis perl

anyway if you don't have root access to the other workstations how will you
install Perl?

Carlo


>Alan Harder wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>
>
>In the context of the brief code segment, why not replace it with:
>
>for dir in `echo $PATH | sed -e 's/:/ /g'`
>do
>	for cmd in perl5 perl
>	do
>
>This would find the first occurance in your path of either perl5 or
>perl,
>v. "first, find perl5, then (if needed) find perl, in your path".
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