From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 11:04:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9408116A4BF for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:04:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com [66.75.160.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0E44400B for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gwschenk@socal.rr.com) Received: from fuzz.socal.rr.com (cpe-66-74-149-98.socal.rr.com [66.74.149.98])h93Hxjk21768 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:59:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Schenk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:04:16 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310031104.17010.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> Subject: using use.perl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:04:23 -0000 I'm running 4.7-RELEASE as my home desktop. I've compiled perl 5.8 from the ports. It was installed in /usr/local/bin/perl. After that installation # perl -v resulted in perl, version 5.005_3 # /usr/local/bin/perl -v resulted in perl, v 5.8.0 If I call /usr/local/bin/perl in my scripts, I realize that the new version will be used. However after running the command # use.perl port, I wonder if old scripts that call /usr/bin/perl will be interpreted under v 5.8.0. If there was a symbolic link placed between /usr/local/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl which version would be used? Thanks for straightening out my confusion. Gary Schenk