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

["Josh Miller" <joshlists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad to hear it went well :)

I didn't delete the old files...I hadn't even thought of that.

You're right about the modules in the Cobalt directory...they look
necessary. Symbolic links sound like a good solution...

I'll probably look at deleting the old files now, but I may not have time to
until next week, so if you do first, I'd be greatful to hear about it.

-
Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Vanecek [mailto:nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 18:00
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Josh Miller Lists
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube2] Perl 5.6 on mips

I finally got around to installing Perl 5.6.0 on my Qube2 using your advice
above. It went without any problems - at least everything seems to still
work...  I did not have to do anything about the version of egcs.

The install into /usr rather than /usr/local was not as dangerous as it may
seem since this version installs into a version specific path:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0. Perl --version does show up as 5.6.0 and programs that
need the later version (such as blq) now compile correctly. However, that
means a ton of really old stuff is left. This has pushed the root partition
up
to 83%.

After your install, did you delete the old Perl version files?

I am a bit worried about the files at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt/.

I guess I could move them over to /home and set up symbolic links. Or maybe
just move them and see if anything breaks.

Thank you for your advice.

Mike.