[ic] Help!! Interchange and Perl 5.8.0

Mark Weaver mark at americanmicroinc.com
Tue May 11 14:53:13 EDT 2004


Rene Hertell wrote:

>>Awsome!!! Thank you SO much Rene. So they fixed the bugs in
>>5.8.0, did they?
> 
> 
> The "bugs" are probably still there. The point is that you should get a Perl
> without threads. It tends to break some modules or some modules just can't
> handle them correctly. You'll get your "clean" Perl by compiling it without
> any extra parameters:
> 
> just get Perl 5.8.2, extract it, and run:
> 
> ./Configure -des
> 
> 
> 
>>Just for my own future info... doesn't Perl install by default to /use
>>as opposed to /usr/local on RedHat 9.0 systems?
> 
> 
> Perl by the distro is normally in /usr/bin, and the modules in /usr/lib, but
> if you compile Perl and its modules by yourself, everything should end up in
> /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib
> 
> 
> Rene

Thanks again Rene. Its compiling right now and doing exactly as you've 
described.

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