I think --with-perl is largely historical cruft, at least for Linux/Unix type systems. I suspect that .configure will just "do the right thing" and find the perl installed by your distro. It seems like all that option probably does is rewrite the shebang lines in the helper scripts.

In the old days, this mattered because there were lots of systems where /usr/bin/perl was version 4. On a lot of our systems, we had /usr/bin/perl5 for a long time. Anyhow, the scripts need Perl 5 so we get that option.

To be fair, that option may still matter a lot on other platforms that don't really have a canonical location for Perl.

In reply to Re: Specifying Perl version to Apache via httpd.conf by Anonymous Monk
in thread Specifying Perl version to Apache via httpd.conf by kcott

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.