From jason@openinformatics.com

I should have sent this here.

Sorry,
jas.

From jason@openinformatics.com

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From: jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart)
Date: 04 Jun 2002 13:35:20 -0600
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Hey All,

The following text is printed during Configure:

In order to ease the process of upgrading, this version of perl
can be configured to use modules built and installed with earlier
versions of perl that were installed under $prefix. Specify here
the list of earlier versions that this version of perl should check.
If Configure detected no earlier versions of perl installed under
$prefix, then the list will be empty. Answer 'none' to tell perl
to not search earlier versions.

It seems that $prefix is not being properly substituted.

Cheers,
jas.

From @rspier

In order to ease the process of upgrading, this version of perl
can be configured to use modules built and installed with earlier
versions of perl that were installed under $prefix. Specify here

Isn't this a misnomer anyway, because 5.8.0 is binary incompatible
with all previous releases. (Excepting some of the more recent 5.7.3
cuts?)

-R

From @jhi

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10​:06​:23PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote​:

In order to ease the process of upgrading, this version of perl
can be configured to use modules built and installed with earlier
versions of perl that were installed under $prefix. Specify here

Isn't this a misnomer anyway, because 5.8.0 is binary incompatible

*Binary* incompatible.

with all previous releases. (Excepting some of the more recent 5.7.3
cuts?)

-R

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From @jhi

The following text is printed during Configure​:

In order to ease the process of upgrading, this version of perl
can be configured to use modules built and installed with earlier
versions of perl that were installed under $prefix. Specify here
the list of earlier versions that this version of perl should check.
If Configure detected no earlier versions of perl installed under
$prefix, then the list will be empty. Answer 'none' to tell perl
to not search earlier versions.

It seems that $prefix is not being properly substituted.

Yes, thanks, fixed now.

Cheers,
jas.

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  # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
  # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

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