Re^4: Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X?

[wrinkles]

in reply to Re^3: Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X?
in thread Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X?

I'm timid about messing with my mac's system files, so I've "opted" for a local, non-root install of my cpan library. I'd like to update to 5.10 however. Is there no reason to be concerned about symlinking to a local perl install? What is the best alternative to a symlink?

[Your Mother]

If you don't link to the other perl you just have to call it from your scripts instead so-

#!/usr/bin/perl

becomes-

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

moo@cow[58]~>/usr/local/bin/perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-2level...

Or /opt/ or wherever you put it. I think. If I'm wrong someone will likely correct me. In the sysadmins and masochists I mentioned before, I'm pretty solidly in the second set. :)