Installing Perl 5.8.0 on redhat 7.1

[hotshot]

Hello guys!

Has anyone here tried (and succeeded) in installing perl 5.8.0 on Linux RedHat7.1. I trying to do that now, I downloaded the sorce rpm and I'm trying now to rebuild it in redhat 7.1 environment and i'm having little problems here. I doesn't agree to compile it (dependencies and stuff).
Can someone refer me to a document of info about the process?

Thanks

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[glwtta]

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you have to be on 7.1? Since you are doing a major upgrade to perl, I am guessing this isn't an exteremely sensitive production environment.

As I remember 7.1 wasn't exactly stable. Not to say that I've tried this on 7.3 and it work, but I think you would have a better chance with that.

[iguanodon]

I've upgraded to 5.8.0 on Red Hat 7.3 and it went flawlessly - but I built it from the tarball I downloaded from perl.com. I don't use RPMs for stuff like Perl because of previous bad experiences with files ending up in what I consider to be non-standard locations. Is a source RPM the same as the tarball?

BTW, my Red hat 7.1 box is still running Perl 5.6.1 because I was worried that the upgrade wouldn't go smoothly and I don't have time right now to fix it if things go horribly wrong. At this point I figure I'll probably just upgrade to the latest Red Hat 8.x which comes with Perl 5.8.0.

[slugmax]

Let's analyze the dependencies:
Red Hat 7.1 (Perl 5.6.0)
Requires:

    * ld-linux.so.2
    * libc.so.6
    * libcrypt.so.1
    * libdl.so.2
    * libm.so.6
    * libnsl.so.1
    * libdb-3.1.so
    * libdb.so.3
    * libgdbm.so.2
    * /usr/bin/perl 

Red Hat 8.0 (Perl 5.8.0)
Also Requires (in addition to most of the above list):

    * libdb-4.0.so (Only in RH 8)
    * libpthread.so.0 (Is already in glibc-2.2.4 found in RH 7.1)
    * libutil.so.1 (Is also in glibc-2.2.4 found in RH 7.1) 



libdb-4 can be found here for RH 8.0 (source RPM). It should rebuild cleanly on RH 7.1, but you should install it, rather than upgrade it (-ivh as opposed to -Uvh). This is the only spot that may cause you problems, since your current system probably has packages that depend on the old libdb-3, meaning it has to hang around, but the new libdb-4 might conflict with it.

If the libdb-4 source RPM doesn't work, you should download the latest Berkeley DB source from here. It uses GNU autotools, so should install in /usr/local... by default. Just add /usr/local...(whatever the library install path is) to your /etc/ld.so.conf and run /sbin/ldconfig as root to make the system aware of the new libraries before trying to recompile Perl 5.8.0.

Good luck,
Doug