Re: --with-perl=/path/to/prefered/perl?

> > On BSD/OS, there is perl (perl4) and perl5 (perl5). You have to set the
> > name of the perl executable.
>
> The standard interface to any Autoconf configure script to override the
> name of a program has always been and will always be setting environment
> variables like this:
>
> PERL=perl3 CC=cc YACC='bison -y' TCLSH=/usr/local/bin/tclsh AWK=mawk ./configure --options ...
>
> (Okay, I lied, in Autoconf 2.50-to-be you can also put the variable
> assignments after the "./configure", but that doesn't change the overall
> principle.)
>
> The idea here is that you might set some of these environment variables
> permanently on your system and then every configure script you run will
> use the same defaults.

The trick here is that the software not call perl directly, but use the
PREL environment variable if defined. I wish all software followed that
practice like we do.

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