> But none of these patches will actually be useful until Apple > themselves builds a version of Perl that is that way. Is anyone from > Apple core (gah) in here? You can't install a new Perl over the old Not directly AFAIK (maybe as silent listeners: hi you all Apple Perl hackers!) but Fred Sanchez has a lot of influence being a former Apple person and still a Darwin developer. > one without using the old one's search path, or else things break, > because you no longer find vendor-added pm files. I've always been > forced to install PREFIX=/opt/perl for my "newer" "real" Perl because > of this. I believe this particular problem has already been addressed, by Fred, in the latest snapshots (since few months, at least). What is now being discussed is fine tuning. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack CohenThread Previous | Thread Next