Stupid question: Perl location (pre 6.x upgrade)

RT Users
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Hi,

I am preparing, carefully, my upgrade from 5.0.9 to 6.0.2, I had to make a significant upgrade to my perl version for 6.x. That eventually worked out with some nearly 200 perl modules being installed (!), and “make testdeps” passes with flying colours for the new perl in the new location. I did this by ensuring that my new perl location’s “bin” directory was earlier in my path as I did the testdeps, fixdeps, etc.

For complicated reasons I couldn’t just upgrade the system perl on my RT box, so I installed the new version into /usr/local/perl-5.42.0. As I say, testdeps/fixdeps looks clean.

My (stupid) question is: How can I make certain that the right perl version will be invoked by RT 6 when I eventually install that? I’m using Apache and FCGI.

What I don’t want to have happen is for me to get to the installation step and when I try to visit the RT GUI all sorts of chaos breaks out because “something” is still trying to use the system perl at the system perl location.

This may be an entirely non-issue. I’m just trying to account for things going wrong as best as I can.

Thank you!

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You can check which Perl is being used by doing which perl then once you run ./configure and make install the files generated in sbin like sbin/rt-attributes-viewer will have the Perl shebang at the top that you can check to confirm the correct Perl was used!

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Perfect, thanks. I was able to check the sbin/rt-attributies-viewer in the src (after make, but, not doing make install yet) and indeed:

#!/usr/local/perl-5.42.0/bin/perl

# BEGIN BPS TAGGED BLOCK {{{ …

And so on.

Thank you, load off my mind!