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Hello,

I am trying to link the DBI module to my perl install on HPUX. This
box has multiple versions of perl. I am trying to link to a version
that is not the default version. I set:
$PATH to new version plus /usr/bin
$PERL5LIB to new version
$PERLLIB to new version.

Inside my script I tried "use 5.8.8". (I have tried different forms
of use.)

No luck. When I run the Makefile.PL at the end I get a message that
says, "I see you're using perl 5.008008..."

I tried making HelloWorld.pl and having it print $] -- it says
5.008008, too.

What environment variable am I missing?

Thanks for your help,
Kari

On May 10, 4:32 pm, Kari <kari.bel...@rmhp.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to link the DBI module to my perl install on HPUX. This
> box has multiple versions of perl. I am trying to link to a version
> that is not the default version. I set:
> $PATH to new version plus /usr/bin
> $PERL5LIB to new version
> $PERLLIB to new version.
>
> Inside my script I tried "use 5.8.8". (I have tried different forms
> of use.)
>
> No luck. When I run the Makefile.PL at the end I get a message that
> says, "I see you're using perl 5.008008..."
>
> I tried making HelloWorld.pl and having it print $] -- it says
> 5.008008, too.
>
> What environment variable am I missing?

None. It's a concept you're missing. v5.8.8 *IS* 5.008008. Two
different expansions of the same value.

See also: perldoc perlvar (the $^V variable), and perldoc -f require

Paul Lalli

On May 10, 6:16 pm, Paul Lalli <mri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> None. It's a concept you're missing. v5.8.8 *IS* 5.008008. Two
> different expansions of the same value.
>
> See also: perldoc perlvar (the $^V variable), and perldoc -f require

Perhaps this output will make that more explicit for you:
$ /usr/bin/perl -wle'print for sprintf("%vd", $^V), $]'
5.8.4
5.008004

$ /usr/local/bin/perl -wle'print for sprintf("%vd", $^V), $]'
5.8.5
5.008005

C:\>perl -wle"print for sprintf('%vd', $^V), $]"
5.8.8
5.008008

Paul Lalli