Re: Building 5.8.7 broke Open Office

Replacing a vendor-supplied Perl with one you compiled yourself often breaks things. I think everyone learns this the hard way -- I certainly did.

If MDK::Common doesn't contain any binary components, you can probably use cpio to extract the .pm files and install them by hand. That might work.

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Re^2: Building 5.8.7 broke Open Office by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 20, 2005 at 03:39 UTC
Replacing by overwriting is dicey; putting it somewhere else entirely is less dangerous. Safer to build to a separate prefix (e.g. `/usr/local`) and put that location on the front of your `PATH`. If you do this you're also more in control of when you upgrade the Perl version you're running against (for example, someone else could be the sysadmin and they might install new rpms/dpkgs/yadda yadda but you'll still be running against the version you've tested and know works).	[reply]

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Re^2: Building 5.8.7 broke Open Office
by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 20, 2005 at 03:39 UTC

Replacing by overwriting is dicey; putting it somewhere else entirely is less dangerous. Safer to build to a separate prefix (e.g. /usr/local) and put that location on the front of your PATH.

If you do this you're also more in control of when you upgrade the Perl version you're running against (for example, someone else could be the sysadmin and they might install new rpms/dpkgs/yadda yadda but you'll still be running against the version you've tested and know works).

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