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Re: Multiarch support from Debian breaks all my old perls

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
May 1, 2012 02:27
Subject:
Re: Multiarch support from Debian breaks all my old perls
Message ID:
20120501092746.GY9069@plum.flirble.org
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:25:18PM +1000, Tony Cook wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:03:58AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:

> > The only workaround I found so far is to edit the Config.pm of the old
> > perl and add the new installation directories there. This works
> > remarkably well but I'm not sure about details like best ordering.
> > 
> > I wonder if somebody has other solutions short of removing all old perls
> > from my disk and recompiling everything?
> 
> I don't see a solution beyond rebuilding or mangling Config.pm.

But possibly the "best" way, to get the ordering "right", is to run blead's
Configure, and then transplant the values it generates into the existing
Config.pm

Nicholas Clark

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