From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HRYlD-0004v8-MJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:03:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2EJ1rjS024323; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:01:53 GMT Received: from ns1.c-cor.com (ns1.c-cor.com [12.17.0.130]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2EIuonF017896 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:56:50 GMT Received: from scpbridge1.NTSCD.C-COR.com (sc.c-cor.com [192.168.128.20]) by ns1.c-cor.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l2EIuo5m003438 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:56:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from beomail3.NTSCD.C-COR.com ([134.242.64.99]) by scpbridge1.NTSCD.C-COR.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2499); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:56:50 -0400 Received: from penguin.ncube.com ([134.242.67.78]) by beomail3.NTSCD.C-COR.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2499); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:56:49 -0700 Received: from penguin.ncube.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penguin.ncube.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2EIufnZ083112 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nerd@penguin.ncube.com) Message-Id: <200703141856.l2EIufnZ083112@penguin.ncube.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple perl installations In-reply-to: <200703141940.43342.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> References: <200703141341.l2EDftbL083965@penguin.ncube.com> <200703141940.43342.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Comments: In-reply-to Bo =?utf-8?q?=C3=98rsted_Andresen?= message dated "Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:40:39 +0100." Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:56:41 -0700 From: Michael Galassi X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2007 18:56:49.0361 (UTC) FILETIME=[85608410:01C7666A] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.0.0.1557-3.6.1039-15054.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--13.794300-0.000000-31 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 6e278ad7-ea28-499f-97c0-ba36c2f8a2eb X-Archives-Hash: 636e5c4e125cbb889be2170755e541b6 >On Wednesday 14 March 2007 14:41:55 Michael Galassi wrote: >> Could someone share with me a man page or google search which will help >> me install multiple versions of perl on an up-to-date gentoo system? I >> tried emerge -a =3Ddev-lang/perl-5.8.4-r4 and a few similar commands but >> to no avail. > >Perl has never been slotted. Therefore installing more than one version of >perl is far from trivial. So while I can tell you how to get perl-5.8.4-r4 >which was removed from the tree 1 1/2 years ago it will not be able to coexist >with perl-5.8.8-r2. Why would you want to do that? I wouldn't :-). I'd personally be quite happy with no perl on my workstation at all. Unfortunately one of our developers insists on doing bizarre perlish things that require the older version (the same one that ships with MontaVista Linux) so our development boxes are now straddled with this other perl. I'll probably end up installing it outside of the normal portage framework (/opt/perl) and hack paths to make it work. Sigh. -michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list