Perl 5.8.0

RT Users
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I am getting sporadic errors from RT V3.0.6 which appear to be linked to
a unicode problem. I am running perl 5.6.1 and a search of the mailing
list archives shows that I should be upgrading to 5.8.0 for a more
reliable RT

However, this could* break some very stable perl code that runs on the
same server. Thus I was thinking that I would install 5.8.0 in
/usr/local/bin and get RT to use this.

My question is, "Is it as simple as changing the first line of webmux.pl
to #!/usr/local/bin/perl or do I have to edit the header of EVERY perl
file related to RT "

Thanks
Dave

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My question is, "Is it as simple as changing the first line of webmux.pl
to #!/usr/local/bin/perl or do I have to edit the header of EVERY perl
file related to RT "

You’d need to rebuild mod_perl with Perl 5.8.0, and run
sbin/rt-test-dependencies again with Perl 5.8.0; that’s about it.

Also, 5.8.2 is recommended both for general stability, and unicode
operations (which can be around 10x faster).

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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Autrijus Tang said:> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:46:11PM -0000, Dave Barter wrote:

My question is, "Is it as simple as changing the first line of webmux.pl
to #!/usr/local/bin/perl or do I have to edit the header of EVERY perl
file related to RT "

You’d need to rebuild mod_perl with Perl 5.8.0, and run
sbin/rt-test-dependencies again with Perl 5.8.0; that’s about it.

Also, 5.8.2 is recommended both for general stability, and unicode
operations (which can be around 10x faster).

Hm. I guess in FreeBSD-land (and pretty much elsewhere, too), when going
from 5.8.0 to 5.8.2 I’d have to re-install all of the p5-* ports to make
use of the new version, right ?
In addition to mod_perl.

cheers,
Rainer

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Rainer Duffner wrote:

Autrijus Tang said:

My question is, "Is it as simple as changing the first line of webmux.pl
to #!/usr/local/bin/perl or do I have to edit the header of EVERY perl
file related to RT "

You’d need to rebuild mod_perl with Perl 5.8.0, and run
sbin/rt-test-dependencies again with Perl 5.8.0; that’s about it.

Also, 5.8.2 is recommended both for general stability, and unicode
operations (which can be around 10x faster).

Hm. I guess in FreeBSD-land (and pretty much elsewhere, too), when going
from 5.8.0 to 5.8.2 I’d have to re-install all of the p5-* ports to make
use of the new version, right ?
In addition to mod_perl.

Right. And don’t forget to do the same with perl packages whose names
don’t start with p5-*. I’ve had problems with mrtg and others.

Alex