On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:39:26PM -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > It goes without saying, Perl-5.8.8 is long in the tooth. If you > download Perl 5 these days, the current version is 5.12.1 and
Leave the system Perl alone ( /usr/bin/perl ). Especially the redhat version, they messed it up to match their expectations. Let rpm upgrades take care of any "improvements" added by redhat to that, but otherwise keep the cotton-pickin hands off, or Wierd Things Will Happen. For everything else, install the Perl of your dreams in /usr/local/bin/perl , and modify any scripts that are hardcoded to /usr/bin/perl that you want to use it. Since binaries in /usr/local/bin are used in preference to /usr/bin , many scripts will use the local version. Besides keeping all the redhat perl scripts working, this also leaves you with a version of perl on the system that may be bent but is unlikely to get broken. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
