[rt-users] Perl 5.8.0

[Alex Soares de Moura]

Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Autrijus Tang said:
> 
>>On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:46:11PM -0000, Dave Barter wrote:
>>
>>>My question is, "Is it as simple as changing the first line of webmux.pl
>>>to #!/usr/local/bin/perl or do I have to edit the header of EVERY perl
>>>file related to RT "
>>
>>You'd need to rebuild mod_perl with Perl 5.8.0, and run
>>sbin/rt-test-dependencies again with Perl 5.8.0; that's about it.
>>
>>Also, 5.8.2 is recommended both for general stability, and unicode
>>operations (which can be around 10x faster).
> 
> 
> 
> Hm. I guess in FreeBSD-land (and pretty much elsewhere, too), when going
> from 5.8.0 to 5.8.2 I'd have to re-install all of the p5-* ports to make
> use of the new version, right ?
> In addition to mod_perl.

Right. And don't forget to do the same with perl packages whose names
don't start with p5-*. I've had problems with mrtg and others.

Alex