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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:41:43AM -0400, Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote: > Simple, you say -- call the new snapshot 5.8.2 instead. Then you build > and install it so the experimental post-5.8.1 snapshot shared libperl is > in $prefix/lib/5.8.2/$archname/CORE/libperl.so. No conflicts, so far. > > But -- now suppose the *real* 5.8.2 comes out, and is significantly > different in some way from your already-installed snapshot (e.g. hashes > are changed in a binary incompatible way). Now, as you try to build the > real 5.8.2, you're picking up your experimental incompatible post-5.8.1 > snapshot libperl.so instead! Can you be more explicit about what would pick up the old libperl.so? Do you mean while testing the newly build real 5.8.2? And if there is a problem here, it exists for the release candidates already. > What to do? I normally recommend using a different $prefix for installing > experimental versions. That would work.Thread Previous | Thread Next