[PLUG] Using a new perl on CentOS...

[Patrick J. Timlick]

In my "Wierd Things That Happen" experience, one should heed Keith's
cautions and advice when attempting to upgrade Python.   Do just as he says,
except replace Perl with Python.

-- Pat

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:39:26PM -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> > It goes without saying, Perl-5.8.8 is long in the tooth.  If you
> > download Perl 5 these days, the current version is 5.12.1 and
>
> Leave the system Perl alone ( /usr/bin/perl ).  Especially the
> redhat version, they messed it up to match their expectations.
> Let rpm upgrades take care of any "improvements" added by
> redhat to that, but otherwise keep the cotton-pickin hands off,
> or Wierd Things Will Happen.
>
> For everything else, install the Perl of your dreams in
> /usr/local/bin/perl , and modify any scripts that are hardcoded
> to /usr/bin/perl that you want to use it.  Since binaries in
> /usr/local/bin are used in preference to /usr/bin , many scripts
> will use the local version.
>
> Besides keeping all the redhat perl scripts working, this also
> leaves you with a version of perl on the system that may be bent
> but is unlikely to get broken.
>
> Keith
>
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