There's more than one way to do things | |
PerlMonks |
Setting up perlbrew for Linux and Solarisby bergbrains (Acolyte) |
on Nov 01, 2011 at 15:38 UTC ( [id://935145]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
bergbrains has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: I am building new versions of Perl for two environments; Linux and Solaris. We still have just a few jobs that run on Solaris otherwise I'd bail on Solaris in a huge way, but for now, I need both, so I chose perlbrew to facilitate the builds. What's the best way to set up perlbrew for this? After a bunch of playing around and testing, I arrived at the approach in which I install a single instance of perlbrew in the default location (~/perl5/perlbrew) and then set PERLBREW_HOME to directories that differ only in the final path element, which is derived from `uname -p`, but that doesn't seem to provide the separation that I really need. Additionally, the docs suggest that, on the related topic of building for two different hosts, I set both PERLBREW_HOME and PERLBREW_ROOT, though there is no indication as to whether in this case, PERLBREW_ROOT should be set prior to installation of perlbrew. The problem I'm having is that it's not clear what the PERLBREW_HOME and PERLBREW_ROOT actually do in the context of installing perls and using different ones on different platforms. So, the options appear to be 1) installing perlbrew into the default location and then setting PERLBREW_HOME for subsequent Perl installs; or 2) installing perlbrew into separate locations on each platform, setting PERLBREW_ROOT on each platform prior to installation, and then setting PERLBREW_HOME appropriately on each platform. Can anyone provide guidance or clarity here? Thanks.
Back to
Seekers of Perl Wisdom
|
|