I installed perl-5.14.1 from source and followed a Redhat Enterprise Linux how to upgrade to 5.10.0 to deduce what perl packages need to be added manually. None of the GD packages want to install, don't know how important these are though. I couldn't get the Glib or Gtk packages to install either. I had trouble as well with the IO::SSLeay package. The real trouble though is with Spamcannibal. Apparently, Michael Robinton hacked MakeMaker, and it has since been updated. I got a bunch of warnings in CPAN. Is there a way to back a package out in perl? I hate to start over entirely again. At least I stored a list of what packages I added to try to satisfy what the stock perl has.
True that perl is a dependency for many things, but Redhat is so slow to upgrade perl and so many bugs are getting squashed that it is downright scary to stick with the stock 5.8.8. Back to MakeMaker, how do I safely use the older version temporarily to get past the warnings? Is there any chance that someone has a competing package that does the same thing without ugly hacks? How about a commercial tarpit program? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
