On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 10:53 , Soheil Shaghaghi wrote:
[..]
>
> 2. I see so many Perl executables, and don't know which one the latest one
> is, or what I should do at this point to get the server to report Perl to
> be
> 5.6.1
>
> /usr/bin/perl Created: 12/25/2000
[..]
> /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 Created: 12/25/2000
> /usr/local/bin/perl Created: 07/24/2002
> /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0 Created: 12/22/2000
> /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1 Created: 07/24/2002
there is your basic problem - you have the older version
in the /usr/bin - hence in the /usr side of the game,
and the newer version was configured to use /usr/local...
hence you will find that there is a
/usr/lib/perl5
and a
/usr/local/lib/perl5
and I'm willing to almost bet that you PATH is rigged
to have
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
let's try this another way around:
vladimir: 58:] pwd ; ls -li perl* /usr/bin/perl | sort
/usr/local/bin
558805 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root other 1175680 Mar 19 15:31 /usr/bin/
perl
558805 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root other 1175680 Mar 19 15:31 perl
558805 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root other 1175680 Mar 19 15:31 perl5.6.1
558810 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 35477 Mar 19 15:31 perlbug
558811 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 22655 Mar 19 15:31 perldoc
558814 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 16932 Mar 19 15:31 perlcc
558839 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 422100 Nov 17 1996 perl4.035
558908 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 737352 Jun 14 1998
perl5.00404
558911 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 642576 Feb 8 1998 perl5.003
vladimir: 59:]
As you will note we have three 'linked' players -
/usr/bin/perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
/usr/local/bin/perl/5.6.1
Only one of them is the 'actual file' as it were...
One of the 'silly bits' that is in play here is that perl came up
with a great way to allow for both
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
as well as running against a specific instance of perl by name...
God alone only knows why I would want to expressly call out
#!/usr/local/bin/perl4.035
but in theory I can do it...
> 3. Is there a configuration somewhere I need to change?
check how you did the 'make' and configure stage....
and decide which way you want to 'swing' in all of this.
either you want to install so that everything goes into
/usr/lib/perl5
or into
/usr/local/lib/perl5
>
> When I run perl -V, here is what I get:
> perl -V
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
[..]
this may be the imfamous 'oopsie' - where you installed
a copy of the 5.6.1 version in a way that it is not
the 'default' perl in your path....
do a 'which perl' and/or 'whereis perl'
eg:
vladimir: 60:] which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
vladimir: 61:] whereis perl
perl: /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl4.035 /usr/local/bin/perl
/usr/local/bin/perl5.003 /usr/local/bin/perl5.00404
vladimir: 62:]
IF you did the oopsie I have done - you installed the new version
into say /usr/ without actually dealing with the fact
that you have an instance of the whole installation in /usr/local
hence rather than having 'links' playing the game of
/usr/bin/perl <==> /usr/local/bin/perl
one of them is STILL the old version...
The fun is that while your 'path' may be set up to call the
'older version' at the command line - eg:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
if your scripts call out
#!/usr/bin/perl
then they will be calling the 'newer' version...
it is best to go back and sort out which is the real player
that you installed....
ciao
drieux
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