Baiju Thakkar wrote:
>
> >
> > Sort of. If you use Red Hat your Perl installation is broken, so
> > building from source is often problematic. The best solution, in my
> > experience, is to either avoid Red Hat altogether or install the bare
> > minimum Red Hat and compile everything else.
> >
>
> FWIW, I have been able to statically compile mod_perl 1.19/1.21 with
> apache 1.3.6/1.3.9 on Redhat 5.2/6.0 with Redhats Perl RPM for
> 5.004_04/5.005_03 without any problems.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. The Perl RPM for RH 6.1 is broken
in a somewhat tangential way. The specific problem is that Perl thinks
it was compiled with "cc", but in most cases the Red Hat installer fails
to create the "cc" alias for gcc. The result is that people can't perl
Makefile.PL && make without getting an error about cc not being found.
Most beginners won't be able to figure out the problem.
-jwb
