Re: Changing the perl used by fink

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 3:04 AM Hanspeter Niederstrasser <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Fink uses the Apple provided perl in /usr/bin/perl, so moving the
> installation over would in theory use the new one with out any problems.
>

Whenever I run fink commands it says "arch: /usr/bin/perl5.18 isn't
executable" (indeed, `/usr/bin/perl5.18` does not exist on the new system);
though everything works just fine on the old system. It's been so long
since I've switched computers, I forget if I did anything special to get it
to use `/usr/bin/perl5.18` in lieu of `/usr/bin/perl`. (I have a vague
recollection of doing so, to avoid certain incompatibility issues; but it's
extremely vague)

However, the change in architecture (x86_64 -> arm64) is more critical
> and like you said requires recompiling. Things might work under Rosetta,
> but I don't know if you can have older x86_64 packages running alongside
> new arm64 packages. Starting from a clean install is probably the better
> way to go.
>

Fwiw, the old binaries do work under Rosetta (at least for basic utilities
like awk; I haven't tried anything more sophisticated). I was planning on
rebuilding everything anyways, was just hoping to keep the configs and get
a manifest of what all I installed, without going back and forth between
the two machines

-- 
Live well,
~wren

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