Perl Installation in Different location

[Rajeev Andrews]

Hi,

I have the perl 5.8.8 depot file.When I try to install this depot file using swinstall it's getting installed under /opt/perl_32/.

When I change the target directory ,in the Analayze face it's getting failed.

How I can install the depot file in a different location.

Thanks
Rajeev Andrews

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Rajeev,

I've played with this before for the benefit of ITRC.

You can install normally and move after the fact. The binaries will function normally if they are part of the PATH variable.

Can you submit the commands you tried, and I can take a whack at providing you different swinstall command line options. swjob output would be helpful too.

SEP

[Dennis Handly]

swinstall provides two ways to control where the results go. One is alternate root, where you add "@ absolute-path" to the end of your command.

The other is indicated by the ",l=location" option after selection.
Note to use l=, the software must be packaged appropriately. (I believe this has now been changed to the default.)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Rajeev:

I suggest you leave things the way they are packaged. If you depot comes from HP, a symbolic link from '/usr/bin/perl' will automatically be created for you. Your scripts can then standardize on the '/usr/bin/perl' shebang interpreter line and no one will know the difference.

Regards!

...JRF...