Perl Ferment

Yet Another tool to manage perl installs in your home directory.

Perl Ferment builds perls into $HOME/perlferment/perls/ and symlinks them to $HOME/local_perl

One of big advantage of Perl Ferment is that it lets you have multiple Perls with different CPAN libraries without the need to use local_lib.

Tools

Perl Ferment comes with 3 tools:

buildperl

Build a specific version of perl $HOME/perlferment/perls/

Usage: buildperl -version perl-5.12.1 -target clean_5_12_1

The specified version of perl must be present in $HOME/perlferment/build/ - In the future, Perl Ferment will fetch from perl.org

listperls

Usage: listperls

Shows the current perl installs in $HOME/perlferment/build/ and which one is in use at the moment.

switchperl

Usage: switchperl target_name

Switches the symlink ($HOME/local_perl) to point at the specified version in $HOME/perlferment/perls/

Installing

To enable Perl Ferment, add the following to your .bashrc:

# Perlferment
export PATH=/home/philc/local_perl/bin:/home/philc/perlferment/bin:${PATH}

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Tutorial

Add Perlferment to your path as demonstrated above

cd mkdir perlferment cd perlferment git clone git@github.com:GeneticGenesis/Perl-Ferment.git . cd build wget http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz tar -xvzf perl-5.10.1.tar.gz cd buildperl -version perl-5.10.1 -target perl_nickname switchperl perl_nickname