the defaults will be OK

I'm thinking that it would be better to use the same configure args as were used to build 5.8.7 on the client, just in case the args are part of the problem. (Running perl -V tells us what those args are.)

I certainly wouldn't assume that matching up the perl versions is going to fix this problem. It may, eg, be that the problem on the 5.8.7 client arises from vendor interference with the perl source - not from the perl version being used. It would be fairly unusual to find code that works on 5.8.8, but not 5.8.7.

Can the op show us the code that is working on one but not the other ? (I don't mean the code in its entirety, just the specific piece of code that's breaking.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: Install Perl 5.8.7 by syphilis
in thread Install Perl 5.8.7 by Anonymous Monk

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