perl problem with cygwin path

[Mike R Brown]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Mike R Brown wrote:
> 
>> [snip]
>>     Nope.  With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under 
>> /usr/bin.  When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the 
>> version that worked from my machine and did a version check while in 
>> /usr/bin  I get
>>
>> ./perly - v   returned 5.8.8 (original questionable perl)
>> ./perl -v     returned 5.8.7 (perl from working box)
>>
>> Everything I have checked points to just one Perl installation.  So 
>> maybe the question here is where did this version come from?
> 
> 
> That is indeed a good question, since the latest available 'perl' from 
> kernel.org is 5.8.7-5. The full output of 'perly -v' (that's the 
> questionable perl) may tell you something.
> 
They look very simular other than revision.

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This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
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- and -
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This is perl, v5.8.8 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
(with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
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Looking closer I see there is a perl -V test that shows much more information. 
I didn't check that out.  Unfortunately the other machine won't be back on line 
until next week.  Will to the -V test and see what it looks like.  Still curious 
as to how it got uploaded to at least one mirror.

Mike


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