Re: Installing perl-5.8.8

On 9/27/07, CyberDESI <cyberdesi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here is the problem, I have RHEL AS 4 update 5 with perl v5.8.5. I would
like to install a newer version in /usr/local/perl5.8.8. I do the following:

sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/usr/local/perl5.8.8
make
....
Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?

Oh, how I wish I could pore over the output of make and know therefrom
the underlying cause of its downfall. But after looking at your error
messages, my crystal ball shows a murky picture that looks like....
You're running out of disk space? You have hardware problems? You have
an unusual system configuration? You used a strange C compiler? Your
system is infected by a virus? You sacrificed the wrong kind of goat?
Sorry.

Unless one of those things seems familiar (especially disk space or
something else unusual on your system), I recommend that you try it
all again from the beginning, unpacking the source distribution into a
new, empty directory and continuing from there. If you run into
troubles (ideally, the exact same troubles as before) try running
Configure without the -de, paying special attention to whether the
default answers are actually correct for your system.

In the meantime, I'll be hoping that somebody with a better crystal
ball can give you a more precise answer as to what you're doing wrong.
Good luck with it!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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