[rt-users] RT and the Perl Dependency Nightmare...

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On 9/8/05, Ben Goodwin <ben at atomicmatrix.net> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Running on RedHat myself, I've given up on trying to run RT with RedHat's
> perl.  I've compiled and installed my own perl into /usr/local and I use
> CPAN to install all the required modules.  I used to use cpan2rpm but as
> perl and required modules got newer while my system's perl got older, things
> started breaking.
I agree here about RH's perl. I didn't see normal builds in RH 9, 9.2,
FC1.(I don't use RH based distros any more)

[snip]
> 
> sh
> 
> # Edit these as appropriate
> export PERL=5.8.6
> 
> rm -rf perl-$PERL
> 
> tar -xzf ../distfiles/perl-$PERL.tar.gz
> cd perl-$PERL
> 
> sh Configure -des -Doptimize="-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686" -Dcc=gcc
> -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i386-linux -Uusethreads -Uuseithreads
> -Uuselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm
> -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm

I usually took configure options from RH's `perl -V` output(perl
sources was vanilla) to be more compatible with RH other environment.


> make
> make install
> 
> /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
> # set up CPAN if necessary
> 
[snip]

-- 
Best regards, Ruslan.