[rt-users] Perl install tips on FreeBSD 4.8?

[Mike Patterson]

Thank you Carl and others for the practical advice on FreeBSD perl 
install tips.  I really appreciate it.  I particularly needed to know 
about the "use.perl" command.

I'll probably make things a bit more difficult for myself by installing 
Apache 2.x with Fastcgi instead of 1.x with mod_perl, so that I can do 
some LDAP auth later down the line.

Thanks,
Mike

Carl Makin wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 01:23, Mike Patterson wrote:
> 
>>I'm building a FreeBSD (4.8) box that will be a RT server.
> 
> 
>>Should I just:
>>cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 ; make clean ; make install
>>or do I need to deinstall, upgrade, etc... the existing port?
> 
> 
> If you haven't installed either of the perl5 ports then there is nothing
> you need to delete.  Perl 5.005_03 ships by default with FreeBSD 4.x. 
> The port versions (5.6.1 and 5.8) are designed to be installed alongside
> the system perl and you can switch between them using the 
> 
> "use.perl <port|system>"
> 
> command.  I would recommend you go straight to perl 5.8 with RT.  
> 
> If you have already installed Apache and mod_perl, then you will need to
> do them again and reinstall all perl modules required by RT using Perl
> 5.8.  
> 
> Otherwise it's reasonably straight forward.  You may find some perl
> modules install easier using the port version rather than via CPAN but
> most will install fine via CPAN.  
> 
> We have RT 3.0.5 with RTFM running here on MySQL 4.0.14, Apache 1.3.27
> etc under FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE with no problems.
> 
> Carl.
>