[CentOS] Multiple versions of software

Mon Dec 5 19:03:49 UTC 2005
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:53 -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> I have a user who wants a version of Perl built with -Duse64bitint
> that is accessable as perl64.  I've pulled down the src.rpm and I'm
> going through the perl.spec file looking to see what all needs to be
> changed.  So, before I really screw up my system, I thought I would
> ask if anyone here has any particular advice.  Help?

As long as you build it as a binary package rpm will prevent you from
causing problems. It won't tell you how to rename the binary from perl
to perl64 though.

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