Installing Perl 5.10 on OSX

theschaef

Ok, so i'm just trying to learn Perl but I want to make sure that I have the latest edition before I get too far into it. By typing "perl -V" in Terminal I can see that I have perl v. 5.8.6 and I would like to install perl 5.10.

I took the source code from the website and followed the installation instructions:

./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl
make test
make install

And it shows no error in installation. But when i type perl -v into terminal it is still loading up pearl 5.8.6. Is there some other way that I have to load up the new version of perl or did i do something wrong in the installation? Sorry, im sure that this is a really basic question but I am new to all of this. Thanks for any help.

Sep 13 '08 #1

theschaef

Oh and it is currently creating a folder in the directory when i run the installation:

/username/localperl

Sep 13 '08 #2

numberwhun

Oh and it is currently creating a folder in the directory when i run the installation:

/username/localperl

Ok, that's fine, but where is the new Perl executable? Is it under /username/localperl/bin? If so, is that in your path?

If not, then what you want to do is find where the current executables are (that are actually being called). Just type "which perl". From there, you should probably delete them and create softlinks to the new executables. At least, that is what I would do.

Regards,

Jeff

Sep 13 '08 #3