Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
The version of Perl is "v5.8.4 built for i386-linux-thread-multi".
It's the one that came with Sarge.
Have you tried upgrading to 5.8.7 ?
No, I was hoping to be able to stay with the "stock" perl, to ease future debian upgrades. But if
that will fix the problem then I'm very willing to try. It would (I think) mean recompiling all my
modules, if I remember correctly the last time I upgraded, none of my own compiled modules seemed to
work any more (something to do with the version number of perl being incorporated in the module
path, iirc).
Also, how would compiling my own Perl affect the fact that I previously installed Perl as a Debian
package? Wouldn't this tend to break the debian package management, since future upgrades of
dependent packages would be assuming that 5.8.4 was still in effect?
In any case, do you think this might fix things?
>Debian Woody
What version of perl was on this OS ?
I don't remember, sorry. That installation was on a hosted server which isn't
available any more.
Thanks for the fast response,
-Neil
