I will provide my usual free advice (consider the amount you paid for the advice ;-D ) on having your applications rely on the system version of Perl: Don't do it! Instead, if at all possible, include Perl in your application stack (create your own install). At the very least, use the OS's packaging manager to install additional modules if at all possible.

The OS's perl is for its own environment. If your OS updates its perl installation for its needs, you risk breaking your application. If you update your OS's perl install for your application, you risk breaking your OS. I am not sure which one is worse. Additionally, you no longer have control over your application's environment -- it can change underneath you, causing "it worked yesterday" errors.

There are very few cases where I target an application against the OS's perl install, and those are usually system utilities built using the OS's default platform.

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re: perl sdl module install fail by MidLifeXis
in thread perl sdl module install fail by freakcoco

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