On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:01 -0700, John D. Sanders wrote: > Sorry for butting in here but you have piqued my curiosity. Is it > better to do a minimal install of RHAS and build up from there with > source or should I use what ships and just add to it.
The way you do it depends on your local admin procedures. If you are not concerned about sticking with the packaging system, you can just compile and install perl, letting it write over your existing one. Most people will not want to do that though. If you want to stick with the RPM system, you can grab the source RPM for perl, tweak the options and recompile it, or make your own RPM, copying the dependency info from Red Hat's, or just install your perl in a different place (e.g. /usr/local/fast_perl). Maybe it would be cool to make an FC3 RPM of Perl built with the best options that installs into a non-conflicting location available for download. Hmmm, if it was compiled with Intel's compiler for a little more speed, would that mean that mod_perl would also have to be compiled with the Intel compiler? - Perrin
