On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Christopher Solomon wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, ROry O'Connor wrote: > > > I'm running perl 5.6.0 that was installed when i installed redhat > > 7.2. I tried to install a few extra modules with CPAN and it also > > tried to upgrade me to 5.6.1, but for some reason could not > > complete. I can't really tell what's going on, but some of my > > modules (like DBI) don't work and I can't re-install them. I think > > it has to do with a half-installed 5.6.1. I don't know what to do, > > I don't want to destroy anything. Any ideas appreciated! > > > note: substitute 'user' for your username > > the -Dprefix line tells perl where to build the directories. > > the -DAPPLLIB_EXP tells perl where to look for user built perl modules > > the -Dstartperl is what you want to use as the hashbang line >
I forgot to mention that you might want to include -DDEBUGGING in the Configure parameters if you want to turn on perl's powerful debugger Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]