Re: libperl.so

Ron Peterson wrote:
> I'm using Red Had 6.1, which has the perl-5.00503-6 rpm installed.  Of
> course there are a jillion other packages which depend on this one.

> So my question is, what happens if I rpm -e perl, then make, make
> install the latest 5.6 source?  Is my whole world going to fall apart?

Yes.  You system will likely die a horrible screaming death.  Maybe I
exaggerate a little, but Perl 5.6 is one reason the next RedHat is 7.0
and not 6.3.  The rpm -e perl is going to die, unless you --force it.
Then you will have to reconfigure the new perl to be identical to the
old in setup -- and Perl 5.6 is not going to be identical in any case.

> I'm scared.

For good reason.  If you must have Perl 5.6, upgrade to RedHat 7.0 when
it's released.  If you must have pl/perl, (as the Pg module does _not_
require libperl.so), then see the instructions in the postgresql-7.0.2-2
rpm spec file, in the src.rpm.  Or ask Karl DeBisschop on the
pgsql-hackers list.

If you are running the RPM distribution, and you're talking about the Pg
client-side perl module, then install postgresql-perl-7.0.2-2.

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Lamar Owen
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