Packaging Perl

lukeAF has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey guys, I am packaging my Perl script on Ubuntu and would like to include all the modules I use so the user does not have to download them. I accomplished this by using tkpp and the script runs perfectly on newer versions of linux, however it wont run on older versions and gives the error:

"Can't load '/tmp/par-luke/cache-eb317cf46c27dc490ed81b4b75929590bb3d94cb/c5d6f3af.so' for module Term::ReadKey: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /tmp/par-luke/cache-eb317cf46c27dc490ed81b4b75929590bb3d94cb/c5d6f3af.so) at /usr/lib/perl/5.14/DynaLoader.pm line 184. at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/PAR/Heavy.pm line 120 Compilation failed in require at script/hpdebug.pl line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/hpdebug.pl line 8.

Any ideas on how to package the script to work on older versions of GLIBC?

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Re: Packaging Perl by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2013 at 02:56 UTC
Any ideas on how to package the script to work on older versions of GLIBC? Its easy, recompile PAR::Packer under older version of glibc, and then package your executable, and distribute that :) ( Re: Packaging Padre on Linux - nntp.perl.org , packaging-padre-on-linux ) Maybe you can recompile PAR::* with -static-libgcc, so it doesn't go looking for another one :) Something else entirely :) http://cavapackager.com/	[reply]

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Re: Packaging Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2013 at 02:56 UTC

Any ideas on how to package the script to work on older versions of GLIBC?

Its easy, recompile PAR::Packer under older version of glibc, and then package your executable, and distribute that :) ( Re: Packaging Padre on Linux - nntp.perl.org , packaging-padre-on-linux )

Maybe you can recompile PAR::* with -static-libgcc, so it doesn't go looking for another one :)

Something else entirely :) http://cavapackager.com/

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