Upgrading Perl to 5.8.7 on RedHat EL 3.0

[dgeorgie at wiley.com]

Jim,

Thanks for the advice. In the last few days I have received comments from 
other people with the same point. I agree it is not worth the risk. 

 I have already installed Perl 5.8.7 into a separate directory tree and 
recompiled the necessary packages. The application works just fine.

Dimitar 




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Ed is correct. I setup something similar on an HP box about 2 years ago.
Instead of messing with the Perl that came with the OS, I installed and
built perl from source(from perl.org) in it's own environment. You will
have to do some reading and research. Unpack the tar and read the
README's very carefully. You will have to make some changes to the
config files before compiling. 

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Upgrading Perl to 5.8.7 on RedHat EL 3.0

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:52:50AM -0500, dgeorgie at wiley.com wrote:
> What is the best or recommended way to upgrade Perl on RedHat EL 3.0
from 
> 5.8.0 to 5.8.7? 

You don't.  If you need 5.8.7 for specific applications, you install
into /usr/local or /opt and then point those applications to the
different instance.  In general, you leave the stock Red Hat-supplied
versions alone.

        .../Ed

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