[rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT

[Robert Grasso]

The RedHat support *just* announced me they added the 'weaken' sub to perl 5.8.8 as part of RHEL v5 ... I did not verify yet ...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Voskamp
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:16 PM
> To: jmoseley at corp.xanadoo.com
> Cc: RT Users; rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT
> 
> 
> jmoseley at corp.xanadoo.com wrote:
> > Jesse, would you mind sharing how you came up with your theory?
> >
> >
> > James Moseley
> >
> >
> > Success!
> >
> > Thanks Jesse, that did the trick.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone else who sent suggestions as well.  Once again, I'm
> > indebted to the RT list.
> >
> > Craig Patterson
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse at bestpractical.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:13 AM
> > To: Patterson, Craig
> > Cc: RT Users
> > Subject: Re: [rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT
> >
> > I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this might fix it:
> >
> > (As root)
> >
> > # perl -MCPAN -e'force install "Scalar::Util"'
> >   
> RedHat (and therefore CentOS) tends to build perl with weakened 
> references off.  This "breaks" Scalar::Util from RT's requirements/point 
> of view.
> 
> Jeff Voskamp
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