Broken perl configuration

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 21, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Bruce R Miller <bruce.miller at nist.gov> wrote:
> But a "plain perl" used from commands like
>  perl Makefile.PL
> will use the more common installation directories,
> like macports used to do, and every other OS does.


which just exchanges the specific behavior you don't want for a different broken behavior (think about what happens if/when you upgrade your macports perl but you have something in ${prefix}/bin that you installed locally that is now missing components...)

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