Re: Adding to @INC

I am guessing the bigger Perl has debug information within the program.

(lurking) David Green



On 8 Jan, 2009, at 0:36, Vic Norton wrote:

> That is exactly what has happened, Sherm. Thanks a lot. Prior to my  
> recent installation of Leopard, I had used MacPorts to install  
> Perl5.8.8. So I have 5.8.8 in two places, in /usr/bin and in /opt/ 
> local/bin. And /opt/local/bin comes earlier in my PATH than /usr/bin.
>
> I'm going to have to think about this. Thanks for the aside!
>
> Another curiosity. I just checked out the Perl5.8.8 files in /usr/ 
> bin and /opt/local/bin. The /usr/bin one came with Leopard, which I  
> bought from Apple a week or so ago. It was created on Dec 7, 2007,  
> and it weighs 48 KB. The MacPorts perl was created on Sep 5, 2008,  
> and weighs 1.1 MB. Why, I wonder, should one Perl5.8.8 be 25 times  
> as big as another?
>
> Regards,
>
> Vic
>
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>
>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Vic Norton wrote:
>>
>>> I plan to use CPANPLUS to install new packages and modules. Right  
>>> now it installs them in
>>> /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
>>
>> As an aside, I think it's kind of odd that /usr/bin/perl would do  
>> that... Are you sure there's not an /opt/local/bin/perl earlier in  
>> your PATH? If you used MacPorts to install a newer Perl, that's  
>> where it would install it.
>>
>> sherm--
>>
>

David Green
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