[rt-users] Preferred Perl version for 4.0.x?

[Kevin Falcone]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:07:33PM -0500, Steve Sisak wrote:
> I worked out a good recipe for installing RT 3.x on Mac OS X Server
> 10.6 which involved giving RT it's own copy of perl 5.8.9, built
> exactly the way RT wants.
> 
> RT 3.x won't compile on Perl 5.12 and wants Perl built
> single-threaded and with other special options -- giving RT a
> private Perl install to chew on works fine, however. The RT docs
> don't seem to have been updated in a long time.

I run RT 3.8 and 4.0 on 5.12.3 as my standard testing perl, on Lion
and previously on Snow Leopard. It works fine.

> Lion Server ships with 5.12.3, but running CPAN on Apple's default
> Perl install can leave your server non-functional with no way to get
> back w/o reinstalling the OS.

That sounds like a fascinating Apple bug that I haven't encountered.

> I'm about to build a new server based on 10.7 (Lion) and plan on
> bringing up a fresh RT instance -- since I'm giving RT a private
> Perl, would like to give it exactly what it wants.
> 
> If anyone wants it, I'll post the recipe once I get the server back on line.

As far as I know, RT will pass tests on 5.8.3 or greater, but you'll
almost certainly have a better toolchain experience if you use 5.12.3 or 5.14.2.
We've deployed RT for clients against custom built 5.12.3 and 5.14.2
without issue (including on OS-X server).

-kevin
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