I have always built my perl (and mod_perl) from source, so I'm trying to get used to the Debian way. I have a few questions I hope someone can help with:
I want to have 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 on my machine. I've built 5.8.0 from source and installed into /usr/local and fixed up links to the perl binary so "perl" still runs 5.6.1 (otherwise some package installations fail). - Is there a better or suggested way to run two installations of Perl under Debian? - If a module is not available as a Debian package, what's the recommended way to install it? CPAN.pm? perl Makefile.PL? Or somehow convert it into a .deb? - The apache-perl package is not build with the modules I need (as I have it built on a production Solaris machine). So I was going to build my own mod_perl server. Will I break the debian perl installation when I make install mod_perl (install all the Apache::* modules)? Is there any worry about binary compatibility when mixing the Debian packages with built-from-source stuff? I'd prefer to use the debian packages as much as possible. Is the answer to download the debian sources when I need to build from source? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
