Re^2: Install Perl 5.8.7

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

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Re^3: Install Perl 5.8.7 by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 29, 2009 at 07:28 UTC
I agree that the version of Perl is likely not the problem. Among the more likely causes is a configuration issue or a CPAN module version. But when someone is trying to debug an issue, they need to eliminate one factor at a time. And the experience of getting their application up and running from scratch against a new Perl may focus attention on what else can be broken. Besides, perl 5.8.7 was the request, so that is what I tried to help them get.	[reply]

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Re^3: Install Perl 5.8.7
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 29, 2009 at 07:28 UTC

But when someone is trying to debug an issue, they need to eliminate one factor at a time. And the experience of getting their application up and running from scratch against a new Perl may focus attention on what else can be broken.

Besides, perl 5.8.7 was the request, so that is what I tried to help them get.

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