Before I went on vacation I was struggling to get AxKit working under Red Hat 9, which had perl-5.8.0-88 installed by default. The consensus was that locale settings were causing problems.
I built a fresh Perl from source but that also failed to handle the locales, so I changed the locales but that still didn't fix it. John Fessenden suggested I try a lower release of Perl, so I installed --force 5.0.8-55 (having uninstalled all the www and XML stuff layered on top of 88), but that seems to cause even more problems, as when I tried to put the www and XML stuff back, it Digest and MIME-64 both claimed they needed a Perl >= 5.6 to run with, which is fairly nonsensical for a 5.8 :-) I'm now left with traces of at least three non-working Perls. I can probably get rid of them, although it'll probably break the OS not to have perl in existence for a while. Most of it seems to live in /usr/lib/perl5 and locate can find the string perl easily enough...but: 1. are there other hidden nooks and crannies where I need to remove important files to be sure they won't interfere with a later install? 2. can anyone recommend a version and release of Perl that they know hand-on-heart *will* work with Apache, mod_perl, and AxKit under RH9? Is it worth trying an RPM again, or should I ditch the idea and use the source? Does anyone know how many system utilities depend on perl 5.8.0 >55? 3. 90% of Perl's problem is it fails to look in sensible places for files. It insists on searching something called @INC which is clearly some mind of path, but it includes directories no-one in their right minds would put files in, and omits all the obvious places. Someone posted the location where @INC is defined, but I can't locate the post. Where is @INC defined so I can change it to search properly? I don't even know if I want to use AxKit: I want to demo it to a class, along with Cocoon and PropelX and other XML servers, and I have one week left in which to get it working without breaking my system. I did once get a version of it working for a day or two last year, so I know it *can* work. And please can someone document on the AxKit site never ever to try installing it on RH9 if the default Apache and Perl are installed :-) That piece of information would have saved me at least two weeks time. ///Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
