RE: [cobalt-users] Implications of upgrading Perl?

["Rob Moore" <rob.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> What breaks under Cobalt OS 6.4 if the Perl is updated
> to version 5.6 or later?   The database access package
> from CPAN seems to need this.

>> Everything. If you're going to install Perl 5.6, download the source and
>> install it to a different location. Then you just point your perl scripts
to
>> the new location. eg. #/usr/bin/perl5.6


I once successfully upgraded perl to 5.6.1 with info from
http://www.oakbox.com/articles/upgrade_perl.html and everything worked
OK after. The author does stress to include the Cobalt:: libraries when
compiling...!


Rob

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