20 Jul
2002
20 Jul
'02
18:52
Nicholas Wourms
Are there any bleeding-edge suse rpms of perl-5.8 available for download? I am working on compiling the source now, but I'm concerned the upgrade might damage the suse scripts. Has anyone had success in integrating perl-5.8 into their SuSE-8.0 install? If so, what steps did you take during the configuration and installation? Thanks in advance!
I compiled and installed perl-5.8.0 into /usr/local with the option to also set it as /usr/bin/perl. I accepted most of the defaults in 'sh Configure'. So far I have not seen any problems, I have run SuSEconfig and cron.daily has run without problems since upgrading.