[Zeffie-Users] How can the main system perl installation on Raq4 beupgraded?

[Zeffie]

> Is there a way to upgrade the main Perl installation on a Raq4 to 
> something more up to date than 5.005? I've got perl 5.8.7 built and 
> installed in /usr/local on my Raq4, but none of the main system 
> applications use it and installing SpamAssassin 3.1.0 fails because of 
> missing things in 5.005.. 8-)
>

rpm -Uvh --prefix=/home/opt 
ftp://www.zeffie.com/Active/ActivePerl-5.8.7.815-i686-linux-2.2.17-gcc-211909.rpm

it will install as /opt/bin/perl

and you will still need to build a bunch of stuff for it

> While I think having the later Perl in /usr/local is good, it's not as 
> good as using it to replace the main Perl installation.
>
> Is the whole GUI on the server tied into specific features of perl 5.005? 
> What stops a Perl upgrade from working when I specify 'y' to the question 
> about whether to link /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl? Last time I 
> tried that the installation failed during the final phase where all the 
> files are copied into their new locations but it's quite a while ago and 
> I'm not sure what the actual error was now.

ftp://www.zeffie.com/zeffie/RaQ4/RaQ4-ActivePerlUsrBinPerl-1.0.pkg

there is a ActivePerl pkg in the same dir but I think it moves the files 
around instead of using the --prefix option so I don't like it as much...

> Once I get Perl upgraded I want to rebuild php so that it includes 
> gettext() support which will allow the sites on the server using phpBB for 
> forums to offer proper international language conversions. At the moment 
> having all the site forums restricted to English only limits their scope 
> to a global audience.
>
> Craig.

my next release of php will include fixed support for gettext...  it's 
broken in this version but there might be a fixed version somewhere...
oh.. like here
ftp://www.zeffie.com/zeffie/RaQ4/testrpms/

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