On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:07:33PM -0500, Steve Sisak wrote: > I worked out a good recipe for installing RT 3.x on Mac OS X Server > 10.6 which involved giving RT it's own copy of perl 5.8.9, built > exactly the way RT wants. > > RT 3.x won't compile on Perl 5.12 and wants Perl built > single-threaded and with other special options -- giving RT a > private Perl install to chew on works fine, however. The RT docs > don't seem to have been updated in a long time.
I run RT 3.8 and 4.0 on 5.12.3 as my standard testing perl, on Lion and previously on Snow Leopard. It works fine. > Lion Server ships with 5.12.3, but running CPAN on Apple's default > Perl install can leave your server non-functional with no way to get > back w/o reinstalling the OS. That sounds like a fascinating Apple bug that I haven't encountered. > I'm about to build a new server based on 10.7 (Lion) and plan on > bringing up a fresh RT instance -- since I'm giving RT a private > Perl, would like to give it exactly what it wants. > > If anyone wants it, I'll post the recipe once I get the server back on line. As far as I know, RT will pass tests on 5.8.3 or greater, but you'll almost certainly have a better toolchain experience if you use 5.12.3 or 5.14.2. We've deployed RT for clients against custom built 5.12.3 and 5.14.2 without issue (including on OS-X server). -kevin
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