Re: [cobalt-developers] Qube 2, Perl 5.6, rmagic (fwd)

[Harald Kapper <hk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:17:42 +0100 (CET), you wrote:

>Is there anybody that has a working rmagic for Qube 2 (mips)?

I haven't sorry.

>Is there anybody who knows how to compile Perl 5.x.x on a Qube 2?

I'd still opt for downloading the 5.8 source, afterwards compiling it.

simple (done on raq2 successfully several times):

create something like /usr/local/perl58  (where you put the executables
afterward); download perl58 to eg /usr/local/src; untar it and do a
"sh Configure -Dprefix=/usr/local/perl58"

do the answering-game, make, make test, make install

this way you can also be sure the perl needed for the cobalt-interface
is not compromised by the newer perl-version.

pitfall: your perl-scripts probably have now to start with
#!/usr/local/perl58/bin/perl

otherwise the old (original) perl will be used.

having perl58 - also the cpan for rmagic should give you easy solutions.

hth
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