CentOS - Dec 2005 - Multiple versions of software

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?

-- Matt

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.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://centos.ivazquez.net/

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On 12/5/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> wrote:
> 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.
Well, yeah, that is the plan.  I've been going through the .spec file
in an attempt to make the appropriate changes.  Unfortunately, RPM has
evolved significantly since the publication of "Maximum RPM".  Does
anyone have any good pointers to detailed documentation on the new
features and syntax?

-- Matt