In our development env, we have, for each release, a "version" of perl that is compliled to know about that version, and the @INC path associated with that. Now, going on release 4.0, and many intervening releases in between, it's getting unwieldy to have to change the interpreter calls in all our perl code as we spin a new release. What we'd like to do is to link to the current release as /usr/local/OurPerl/bin/perl, but provide the ability to override that (for testing, bug fixing, sustaining maintenance, etc.) via a user ENV variable, say TEST_PERLROOT. I've just started to muck about with some ideas, but each seems messier than the last. Anyone else have to solve this problem, or have ideas? Thoughts much appreciated, - bill

In reply to how to invoke a different perl interpreter based on user ENV variable by Anonymous Monk

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