On Sep 26, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
The reason I've done it this way is because I have a set of perl
scripts and web apps that require a Perl environment that is
identical across several machines, including my PowerBook and a
few Linux servers.
I *HIGHLY* doubt that the difference in minor point versions is
going to break those scripts. It's possible, but very unlikely.
Have you verified that it definitely will break them, or are you
just guessing that it might?
What I would do in this situation is check to see if 5.8.6 is close
enough to develop with. If a script worked on one machine but not
the other, I'd dig through the 5.8.7 and 5.8.8 change logs to find
anything relevant to the problem.
Then and only then, if a version mismatch (rather than a mismatch
between env. variables, file locations, locale, etc...) were indeed
the problem, I would consider going to the trouble of installing a
newer Perl.
I've built Perl from source hundreds of times and I know the
process very well - but it's still time-consuming tedium that I'd
rather avoid unless it's truly necessary.
You are most likely correct ... sorry, my hijacking of this thread (I
wasn't the original poster) probably made it look I felt I needed a
5.8.8, when in fact I'm actually happily using a custom built 5.8.6.
My practice of building my own perl, which began back in the days of
Jaguar, grew out of the need to have my web dev environment (apache,
mod_perl, php, mod_ssl, lots of CPAN modules, etc, etc) be consistent
across my dev machine (OS X) and several servers (Linux). And IIRC
this did come after a number of version inconsistency related
problems. At the time, building my own custom versions of everything
on each box seemed the best way to go.
Next time I upgrade to a new machine (where are those Core 2 Duo
MacBook Pros ;-), I may not bother to build my own.
Just for the sake of curiousity, I'd be interested in knowing what
Tiger's perl install includes beyond what is part of the core
perl-5.8.6. Anybody have a list somewhere?
Look around in /System/Library/Perl/Extras/
Thanks.
Ray
