Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:37:38 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <1331824927336.20040825133738@familiehaase.de> To: "Gary Nielson" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin-Perl upgrade and modules In-Reply-To: <200408250038.i7P0c5Pg020485@ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com> References: <200408250038.i7P0c5Pg020485@ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Gary wrote: > The other day, I decided to finally update all my cygwin packages with > setup.exe -- including perl. Went from 5.8.0 to 5.8.5 and now realize that > the path to all the modules I installed is under the older version at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 instead of /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5. > I've always shied away from upgrading perl in Linux so don't have much > experience dealing with modules from older installations. Must I re-install > all these modules, or can I add a path to them in my scripts, or should I > revert back to the older version of perl and if so, how? Any help > appreciated. It is not binary compatible (IIRC, 5.8.0 was not threaded), so you should recompile all modules which require compilation, pure perl modules may be moved from 5.8.0 to 5.8.5 path, however I always rebuild them from scratch. The autobundle command in a CPAN shell is meant to create a list of packages which you have installed (run before unistalling), after update you may simply run `install autobundle_$date` in the CPAN shell, this pulls all listed modules and tries to install it. Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/