Hi, i need some advice as i'm not very familiar with solaris in particular not in solaris 8. I have a production server running perl 5.5.3 and want to upgrade the perl version, at least to 5.6.x, better to a current version because i have to install some modules and a db-driver there to run a new application.
1. Do you think it is better/safer to make a second install -maybe to /usr/local/bin/perl- or can i upgrade without problems? Plz keep in mind it is a production server.
2. Better use gcc or SUNs cc to compile it? Or better take some binaries for sparc, are there...?? recommendations are highly appreciated. thanks

In reply to perl update on solaris 8 by rayzit

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