Thanks for the reply, Jenda. (OS/arch is Solaris8/Sparc)
The difficulty will be knowing exactly which files were added by a module install -- if I want to distribute per module. Otherwise, I guess I can just roll the updated site_perl directory structure. Yes? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:10 AM Subject: Re: Compiling and distributing Perl > From: "Karl Kaufman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Ok, I have a "sane compiler" toolset installed on my development > > server, but NOT on several servers on which I want Perl. (Where the > > development and production servers are the same architecture.) > > > > Can I build & install Perl on my development server, and then just > > distribute it as a tarball to the production servers? > > Yes. If all servers are using the same OS&architecture you should be > able to do that. It would be better if you told us what architecture > it is though. > > I can confirm that this does indeed work just fine for al kinds of MS > Windows in Intel machines. > > To keep things simple you should keep the path to the instalation the > same on all servers. Otherwise you may have to change some paths in > Config.pm and maybe a few other places. > > > What about installation of custom Perl modules? How can these be > > integrated into my custom distribution on the production servers > > without a compiler toolset on the production servers? Can they? > > Again ... if the OS & architecture is the same you should be able to > compile the modules on the dev server and then copy the results to > the production ones. > > Jenda > ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== > When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed > to get drunk and croon as much as they like. > -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>