Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>>>> Would it be possible to add a path spec to the --with-perl configure
>>>> option so that if we have 2 or more PERL versions on the system we can
>>>> pick which one to use?
>>
>> Why do you need that, as opposed to just setting your PATH so that
>> configure finds the right one first?
> On BSD/OS, there is perl (perl4) and perl5 (perl5). You have to set the
> name of the perl executable.
Oh, so it wouldn't be a search path but a specific executable name
(with or without full path info). OK, that makes sense to me.
I've had different perls installed with different executable names
myself.
regards, tom lane