Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:02:27 -0500 | From | Ryan Anderson <> | Subject | Re: Perl in the toolchain |
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:06:33PM -0500, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > For the record, the userland which I posess does have a somewhat > working Perl RPM, which originates from Red Hat 5.2, I believe. > So, I cannot invoke "missing perl" argument in good conscience. > However, I shudder to think what happens if I need to rebuild it > for some reason.
Well, do "perl -v" and see if it's at least 5.004 (5.004.003 I think would be better.) If so, hpa's requirement that everything work on 5.004 is fine. (And really, I don't believe that requirement is going to be hard to follow, except that it does constrain the modules in use a little bit - I'm pretty sure the Digest::MD5 was missing from the 5.004 default set of modules.)
> There's also a subject of a skillset. I know nil about Perl. > (ok, I hacked sirc long ago. I don't think it counts.)
If you hacked sirc... Well, that's an example of incredibly bad Perl, so, you should be able to follow well-written and documented Perl, imo.
(I did an amazing amount of sirc hacking in my time, and it was an exercise in pain, to be honest.)
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