Gary wrote: > The other day, I decided to finally update all my cygwin packages with > setup.exe -- including perl. Went from 5.8.0 to 5.8.5 and now realize that > the path to all the modules I installed is under the older version at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 instead of /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5. > I've always shied away from upgrading perl in Linux so don't have much > experience dealing with modules from older installations. Must I re-install > all these modules, or can I add a path to them in my scripts, or should I > revert back to the older version of perl and if so, how? Any help > appreciated.
It is not binary compatible (IIRC, 5.8.0 was not threaded), so you should recompile all modules which require compilation, pure perl modules may be moved from 5.8.0 to 5.8.5 path, however I always rebuild them from scratch. The autobundle command in a CPAN shell is meant to create a list of packages which you have installed (run before unistalling), after update you may simply run `install autobundle_$date` in the CPAN shell, this pulls all listed modules and tries to install it. Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
