[rt-users] Perl is Broken after Centos 5.4 update

[Mathieu Longtin]

I'm running it on Red Hat ES 5.4 without issues. The only thing about RH and
RT, is that you need to re-install File::Temp everytime the perl RPM is
updated.
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Mathieu Longtin
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Gary L. Greene, Jr. <
ggreene at minervanetworks.com> wrote:

> On Friday 13 November 2009 8:04:35 am Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> > This is not an RT problem per se, and it is yet another example of the
> > problems with relying upon externally controlled (automatically
> > updated) libraries to run a large 3rd party system i.e; you should
> > ideally have a local perl installation to run RT.
> >
> > RH ES4 is known to use an outdated and incompatible Scalar::Util,
> > perhaps ES5 does as well.
> >
> > > "make testdeps" will not run with *** No rule to make target
> > > `testdeps'.  Stop. error.
> >
> > Then your build tree is seriously borked. Fetch and extract another
> > copy so that you *can* run make testdeps.
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> I've been running RT just fine on a CentOS box. Note that I've built all
> modules that are required as packages, and noted the breakage of various
> core
> modules as shipped by RH from the CentOS mailing list, so I build packages
> for
> those too parented in the site_perl tree. IMO, the need for a source
> built/local build of Perl is NEVER a good solution to hand to users.
> Running a
> ticketing tool shouldn't require a user to build a local copy of a core
> distribution component.
>
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