in reply to Perl version / compilation

You have different unicode support compiled in. I expect you are going to have to recompile perl (and update to a more recent version) but RH did have some locale based issues. Check your locales on the different boxes.

I am sure it is not recommended but on identical hardware you can just tar.gz the perl install tree, move it to a new box, untar it and it all works. I have only ever done this on identical hardware/os etc.

cheers

tachyon

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Re^2: Perl version / compilation
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 29, 2004 at 15:01 UTC
    If I try just moving the whole directory, that would be the /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ directory right?
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      If you are going to try it you do it at the perl5 level. So start by doing mv /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5.old so you can roll it back if required. Also the actual perl binary can end up in a number of locations depending on what you do at compile time. Do a ll `locate bin/perl` or similar to find which are symlinks and whare your real binary is located. You need to rename and replace that as well.

      I don't particularly recommend this. I would just get the latest 5.8.x and recompile it. You can leave the existing install inplace.....

      cheers

      tachyon

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