Hi,
I bought the O'Reilly 5th edition Learning Perl the other day and it's
great. I am new to programming and Perl as well. I do know my way
around Linux but I am having problems upgrading from the version that
was on my OS (Cent OS 5.2) to 5.10. I downloaded Perl 5.10 from
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz, then
tar -xvzf perl-5.10.0.tar.gz the package in /usr/local/bin I then
followed the README guide that said to:
./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl
make test
make install
Now, the first command was probably my mistake because I really have
no idea what that would do. I figured that I could simply use the
shebang after make test and make install was done "doing it's thing"
and type out #!/usr/local/bin/perl-5.10.0 or #!/usr/local/bin/
perl-5.10 and everything was work just fine and I would be using Perl
5.10 This obviously is not the case as now it tells me I still have
5.8.8 installed. I know this is probably a very common problem and
I'll try and do all the research I can when I find the time but if any
of you that are a lot more experienced could help me out and "put me
in the right direction" that would be great.
Here is the code from the book (page 68) I am trying to run:
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl-5.10.0 # I've also used perl5.10 and every
other thing I could think of...
use 5.010;
use strict;
sub marine {
state $n = 0; # private, persistent variable $n
$n += 1;
print "Hello, sailor number $n!\n";
}
&marine;
&marine;
&marine;
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And here is the output I am getting when I try running it:
Perl v.5.10.0 required --this is only v.5.8.8
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I've also noticed that now there's a perl5.10.0 located in the /root/
localperl/bin so I am sure it has something to do with the
above .Configure command. Can anyone give me some advice on how to get
5.10 working? I feel like I am close, but nothing so far.
thanks in advance,
jim
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