Peter, one simpler step you might try is just to grab any other version of
the RPM for perl and install it.
A friend of mine found a perl-5.8.0 rpm that was a few releases lower than
that which shipped with RH9. this solved the problem.
--fess
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 21:34 Europe/London, Peter Flynn wrote:
>
> >> Can you try downloading AxKit again from a known-good source like CPAN
> >> or axkit.org?
> >
> > Did this from several sources and they all fail. Conclusion is that I
> > have some rogue Perl code somewhere. Problem is, I'm not a Perl user,
> > so what's there must be whatever default RH9 installs, as I've never
> > consciously downloaded or added/deleted anything to it.
>
> OK, from what I've heard from elsewhere Red Hat shipped a broken perl
> with RH9 - a build from CVS. Why oh why do we have to put up with this
> crap from Red Hat I don't know...
>
> Anyway, the best fix I can think of for you is to install a new perl in
> a non-default location. If you run perl's configure it should use
> /usr/local rather than Red Hat's /usr for the location of perl, so this
> should work just fine for most scripts and leave your current Red Hat
> perl in-tact. Perl always makes bin/perl a symlink to bin/perl<version>
> anyway, so if it overwrites your bin/perl with a newer one you can
> always restore the old link so your system scripts continue to function.
>
> So what you basically want to do is download perl 5.8.0 from perl.org
> or perl.com or direct from cpan. Then compile and install that (it's
> very straightforward - just run "sh Configure -de" after downloading it
> and entering the new directory, then run "make", "make test" and "make
> install" (last part as root) and it'll all "just work"). Then you need
> to build mod_perl-1.27 using this fresh perl, which should be installed
> as /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0.
>
> All sounds quite complex, but if you're careful to always use your
> "newer" perl it should all fall into place quite happily.
>
> Matt.
>
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