RE: [cobalt-users] [Qube2] Perl 5.6 on mips

["Josh Miller" <joshlists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know about a qube2, but I've done this on a raq2 with no problems.

I used http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz which is currently 5.6 and
instead of the suggested "sh Configure -de" I used "sh
Configure -deDprefix=/usr". This chooses all the defaults, except for
placing perl in /usr/local. (Note that this is probably a dangerous thing to
do without testing it on a non-production qube2)

I did have the egcs from ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental installed
when I first tried this and the compile failed miserably. Downgrading to the
version supplied with the raq2 fixed this.

-
Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Vanecek
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 21:47
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: qube-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] [Qube2] Perl 5.6 on mips


I am thinking about installing or upgrading my Perl to a later version (the
author of the latest CPAN update told me he did not know any versions as old
as mine were still around :) so ....).

I scanned the archives and picked up just a little bit of discussion, but am
not clear if the install went as desired.

If you have upgraded or installed a latter version of Perl on a MIPS machine
(such as the Qube2):

Where did you get the binary - source - or whatever. I looked at
ftp.perl.org,
but am not sure which one I should try?

Some comments in the archive suggest that upgrading to a newer version of
Perl
will zap some of the Cobalt admin scripts. Is this true?  If yes, then does
installing the newer version in a different location work?  Please give me a
bit of detailed help on this one.

What configuration tricks or warnings do you have for someone doing this?

Am I out of my mind (yes I know ...) for even thinking about doing an
upgrade?

Thanks, Mike.