Re: Building perl fails tests with 01_Archive-Extract.t, stress.t and h2ph.t

[jjap]

It is not obvious from your post that upgrading to Perl 5.14 would be the solution.

If it is really the course of action, I would recommend you do a bit of reading as Perl as a special status within Debian (on which Raspbian is based).

https://wiki.debian.org/Perl#Perl_and_Debian

I'll risk being slightly off topic (and perhaps out of my league) to share that I have SlimServer running on Ubuntu 14.04 which probably has Perl 5.12. Although I cannot verify at this point in time, I doubt SlimServer has requirements for a much more modern version of Perl than whatever is shipped with a regular distribution. Hence my suggestion to examine more carefully the causes upstream of the Perl version.

HTH and best of luck

[Montronaloya]

I think you misunderstand. The perl that is installed by default through the Raspbian repos is 5.20.2. I'm trying to downgrade my perl version. Thanks for the link. I've read similar things, which is why I attempted to install in an alternative location (/opt), leaving the system perl in the normal location.