Upgrade perl from 5.8.6 to 5.8.8 - help with upgrade

[ben.wilder]

Hi all,

Perl N00b here in need of a bit of kind assistance!

I am attempting to upgrade Perl from 5.8.6 to 5.8.8 on Fedora Core 4

I have performed the following:

Run: perl -V to get the version (5.8.6)
Downloaded perl version 5.8.8 and untarred
Run: ./Configure -des -Uusethreads
Run: make
Run: make test
Run: make install

All goes well - how do i alter my installation to now use this version
of perl, as running perl -V returns the same version information?

Many thanks for any help!

Ben

 

[anno4000]

Hi all,

Perl N00b here in need of a bit of kind assistance!

I am attempting to upgrade Perl from 5.8.6 to 5.8.8 on Fedora Core 4

I have performed the following:

Run: perl -V to get the version (5.8.6)
Downloaded perl version 5.8.8 and untarred
Run: ./Configure -des -Uusethreads
Run: make
Run: make test
Run: make install

All goes well - how do i alter my installation to now use this version
of perl, as running perl -V returns the same version information?

That should already have happened. Check your path. Normally (but not
always), the new version is installed as /usr/bin/perl. What does
"which perl" say?

Anno

 

[ben.wilder]

Hi Anno,

Thanks for the reply,

the output to the statement "which perl" is as follows

/usr/local/bin/perl



interstingly enough, i have just reopened my SSH connection to perform
this command, and ran perl -v just to check and it appears the version
is now 5.8.8. However, this was DEFINATLEY not the case after i had run
make install, any ideas what could have caused that?

Thanks

Ben

 

[anno4000]

Hi Anno,

Thanks for the reply,

What reply? I wrote seven or ten replies since yesterday -- which one
are you referring to? Please supply attributions and some context with
your reply.

the output to the statement "which perl" is as follows

/usr/local/bin/perl

Okay, that's not the standard location, though it's a close runner-up.

interstingly enough, i have just reopened my SSH connection to perform
this command, and ran perl -v just to check and it appears the version
is now 5.8.8. However, this was DEFINATLEY not the case after i had run
make install, any ideas what could have caused that?

That's a question about your system, not about Perl. Since you have told
us little about your system I can only guess. Perhaps you have a csh-like
shell that needs a "rehash" to honor changes in the actual environment.
Who knows.

Anno

 

[ben.wilder]

Anno,

Thanks very much for you reply to my message dated Wed, Jul 5 2006
11:40 am Re: Upgrade perl from 5.8.6 to 5.8.8 - help with upgrade.

I'll investigate the issue regarding the version change of perl showing
5.8.6 even after the upgrade, your comments are much appreciated.

Answers much like i have come to expect from the open source community.

 

[Dr.Ruud]

anno4000 schreef:

ben.wilder:

Okay, that's not the standard location, though it's a close runner-up.

Big chance that /usr/bin/perl is a hardlink to /usr/local/bin/perl.

See "which -a perl" too.