[Gllug] Perl 5.6.1 ?

[Kim Hawtin]

> I read an article on  npulse in the latest Linux Journal
> (OK Dean - it was Marcel Gagne's Cooking with Linux column,
> but that still doesn't make it a bad thing)
> 
> Npulse in network monitoring software http://www.horsburgh.com/h_npulse.com
> So far so good.
> 
> But it needs Perl 5.6.1, and I'm running Redhat 7.1
> Last time I compiled Perl from source and installed, I remember hours
> of endless joy.
> 
> Can anyone say what the version of Perl which ships with RH 7.2 is please?
> This might motivate me into upgrading.
> 
> 
> And yes - high time I stopped this childish RPM dependency and acted like
> a Real Man (TM) and switch to Rock Linux, or Debian.

you could try using CPAN to get upgrade perl...

i might just note that i have never got this to work properly,
until, i upgraked make and ... autoconf IIRC.
oh and make sure your clock is right! - that bit took ages.
perl 5.6.1 has *date* dependencies in the makfile building
scripts ... *lots* of *fun*!

yours,

kim
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