Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!seismo!sundc!newstop!sun!ravi!anantha From: anantha%ravi@Sun.COM (Anantha Srirama) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Installation Enhancement Message-ID: <129933@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 21:22:59 GMT References: <129887@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Distribution: usa Lines: 23 rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes: >All you have to do is put a link from /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl >or wherever you actually installed it. >If you rely on the header pointing to exactly where your site's copy is, you >won't be able to run files off the net without changing their headers too. >I think the link solution is the right thing to do. >-- >Rodney This automatically assumes that I have write permissions in /usr/bin directory. This may not always be the case. I still say that the Configure should set it up. -Anantha- ******************************************************************************* Anantha Padmanabha N. Srirama | USENET: ...sun!anantha@Eng Sun Microsystems | ARPA: anantha@Eng.Sun.COM 2550, Garcia Ave. MS: 16-02 | Mt. View, CA-94043 | *******************************************************************************