I can see two strategies that might work here (although none I consider as particularly appealing.)

Strategy 1
Assuming that your old perl was installed under /usr/bin, /usr/lib/perl. Install a modern version of Perl, 5.8.2, say, under a different directory /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib/perl. So that you have two different perl environments on the same machine.

Then install the latest LWP modules under the new perl environment. Although that your kernel is old, but I think the latest Perl should still compile and work gracefully.

Strategy 2
The current version of LWP on CPAN is version 5.76, which requires perl 5.005 as minimum. You could download the source package and fudge the perl sources. Remove the require 5.005 constraint, run the test cases, and fix whatever error that shows up.



In a long run, you are much better off if you upgrade to later version of Perl, with modern libraries. Otherwise you will be missing a lot of new features and upgrades. Personally I would favour strategy 1, just give it a go and see, you never ever know if you never ever try.

In reply to Re: Ancient LWP and proxies by Roger
in thread Ancient LWP and proxies by mpolo

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