changing perl path to "/opt/local/bin/perl5.8.8"

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 22, 2008, at 04:10, Marc Manthey wrote:

> Am 22.03.2008 um 04:15 schrieb paul beard:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Marc Manthey wrote:
>>
>>> i would like to run a little "analysis tool " whitch is writen in
>>> perl on my leopard ppc mac.
>>> After upgrading my perl librarys *)  on OSX PPC with macports
>>> I need to change the systemwide variable for using perl5.8.8 to
>>>
>>> /opt/local/bin/perl5.8.8
>>>
>>> instead of using
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/perl5.8.8
>>>
>>> could someone provide me a  comand line  for dummys to change  
>>> it ;) ?
>>
>> What does "echo $PATH" tell you?
>
> mini:~ mini$ echo $PATH
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
>
> and now ?

And now you set up your PATH to include /opt/local/bin as advised in  
the MacPorts guide:

http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell