(RADIATOR) non-standard location for perl?

[Neale Banks]

Hi,

Grepping through Radiator 3.1, it appears that perl is assumed to be in
both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl - is there any recommended way
of changing the location of perl (other than hand-editing the #! lines)?

The reason I ask is that I need to upgrade an OLD version of Radiator
which is on a system which doesn't yet have perl 5.005 (highest is perl
5.004).  Looking over the perl-5.005 INSTALL file, it mentions there that
this upgrade can be tricky and the installed modules will need to be
rebuilt - but Tux only knows what I'll break going down that path, so my
incliniation is to install perl-5.005 as say (only)
/usr/local/bin/perl5.005 (and, for now, not upgrade /usr/local/bin/perl
nor /usr/bin/perl).

Speaking of perl versions, Radiator 3.1 (and presumably several prior
versions) require perl 5.005 - but "perl Makefile.PL" appears to run
happily with 5.004 and then "make test" fails in bizzare ways (which I
assume are due to requiring perl 5.005).  Is there any reason that "perl
Makefile.PL" doesn't either explicitly depend on 5.005 or check the perl
version and complain appropriately?

Thanks,
Neale.

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