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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!news00.visionet.com.au!chatsusi02.optusvision.com.au!news.aus.world.net!news.us.world.net!news.inc.net!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.179.98.2!news.visigenic.com!news From: Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Note! 2 versions of Perl in Release 2.1.6-Release Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:45:28 +0000 Organization: Visigenic Software, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <33019138.710D@visigenic.com> References: <5doo2u$b64@lester.appstate.edu> Reply-To: toneil@visigenic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: vsi48.visigenic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35556 Kinney Baughman wrote: > After experiencing mucho difficulties getting Majordomo to install, I > discovered there are two versions of Perl in this release. The one in > "/usr/bin" appears to be an older version, version 4.0 perhaps (and > incompatible with Majordomo). The one in "/usr/local/bin" is version > 5.002 and compatible. > I didn't discover it until I issued a "which" command from both the "sh" > and "tcsh" and noticed the path differences. > If you're having problems getting some of your perl based programs to > run, this might be the reason why. It was definitely the reason > Majordomo wouldn't run on my system. This is a useful bit of info Kinney, thanks. Being new to freeBSD, this is good to know. I wonder what would break if I simply changed my path order to reflect /usr/local/bin earlier on than /usr/bin?