Re: Perl 5.6 exception problem

Installing multiple Perls is easy. You just have to make sure that each binary is called something different. I often have 2-3 Perls installed on development machines. /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl are almost always different versions. (I don't like vendor-builds much.) You can also do /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.2 and /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0, if you want. (This is what gcc does ...)

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Re^2: Perl 5.6 exception problem by ysth (Canon) on Aug 20, 2004 at 19:22 UTC
Which you do with Configure -Dversiononly. (That has the side effect of clearing inc_version_list/inc_version_list_init, so you may want to set those in config.sh after configuring and then rerun Configurure -S or config_h.SH if you are trying to have e.g. 5.8.2 and 5.8.5 separate, but have 5.8.5 use 5.8.2's installed modules. This is not an issue for using both 5.6.x and 5.8.x.)	[reply]