"G.W. Haywood" wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Richard Ayres wrote:
>
> > Rather than trying to manhandle it all into RedHat's directory
> > structure *I* would rebuild apache & perl etc. either into
> > /usr/local or their own subdirectory under /opt. That way you get to
> > keep all the RedHat cruft, and keep it happy with its own perl - but
> > you also have your own copies for apache.
>
> I second that.
>
> 73,
> Ged.
I usually just do an 'rpm -e perl --nodeps' and then build Perl right
there, sticking it into /usr/local/bin. I don't think Redhat cares where
Perl is located...it's just a package dependency thing. Anything that
thinks it needs perl later can be installed with --nodeps as well.
Finally, if the messages both you but you don't want two perls (I don't
think I would, actually) you can compile perl into wherever, and toss
it into a binary RPM of your own. It's not hard to do if you have an
example spec file to work from (source rpms get more complex though).
- Bill
