I've seen some differences between Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8, but only under
Windows which is not your case.
A problem of Perl 5.8 under Windows is that the module DBD::mysql cannot be
installed with PPM. It might be compiled with a C compiler, I don't know.
However, MySQL can be used under Windows and P
"Pure perl" (probably oversimplified) means that you can install the module
yourself by placing it and any of its supporting files in a directory and
calling it with 'use lib' or pushing/unshifting it into @INC. Modules that
are not pure perl have some sort of compiled supporting file associated wi
On Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002, at 05:11 US/Pacific, fliptop wrote:
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if you're using redhat linux, i'd recommend using whatever rpm they
have.
for rh7.3, the current perl is 5.6.1. for rh8, it's 5.8.0.
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about the only 'bug' I ran into with the rh7.3 release
of 5.6.1 was that they did not buil
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:03:37 -0600, "Scot Robnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Modules that are not pure perl have some sort of compiled
> supporting file associated with them
True.
> and must be installed by root using a 'make install'.
Fals
If I don't have to be root or do a make install, why am I not able to get
modules like Expat to install successfully, and why does their documentation
tell me that's what I have to do? It seems like if there's another option,
the pod docs or readme should tell me so. If there's another alternative
