<div dir="ltr">Nice. But I wouldn't recommend anything between 5.14 and 5.20. <div><br><div>5.14.4 was the last stable release. Then the binary symbol horror began, which was finally fixed with 5.22. </div><div>5.22.1 also brings nice performance improvements. Just the bytecode compiler and Coro is broken. You have to patch it yourself.</div></div><div>But 5.24 will break much more.</div><div><br></div><div>I can only recommend my own variant, cperl with the upcoming 5.22.2 version, which is more secure, faster, uses less memory and has tons of additional features.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-09 18:01 GMT+01:00 Matthew Dees via Houston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:houston@pm.org" target="_blank">houston@pm.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">For redhat systems you can use software collections (which are funded and maintained by redhat) for getting better versions of perl.<div><br></div><div>for example, if you 5.20 on c6 or c7, you can use the following packages:</div><div><a href="https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-perl520/" target="_blank">https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-perl520/</a><br><br>or 5.16:</div><div><a href="https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/perl516/" target="_blank">https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/perl516/</a><br><br>There are some extra bits you'll have to do your shebang to ensure your scripts work properly, either writing your scripts with "#!/usr/bin/env perl" and using the scl command to enable the correct version of perl or specifying the full path to the perl executable "/opt/redhat/rh-perl520/root/usr/bin/perl" in the shebang.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're doing an /opt install, might as well use one where someone has already done the work for you.<br><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Steven Lembark via Houston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:houston@pm.org" target="_blank">houston@pm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Then expect to install Perl: RH uses (last I looked) pre-5.16<br>
versions compiled for binary compat with 5.00503 (i.e., horrific).<br>
<br>
Simplest approach I've found is installing into, say, /opt/perl5/5.22.<br>
At that point you can symlink 5.22/* . in /opt/perl5 [recall that<br>
linux switched to SVr4 filesytem ~15 years ago]. Point is that you can<br>
test an upgrade to the next version and upgrade the system in one step<br>
with: cd /opt/perl5 && rm * && ln -fs 5.X/* .;<br>
<br>
In normally keep /opt/bin/ full of symlinks to ../<whatever>/bin/*<br>
which includes perl5, perl6, NeXS spreadsheet. At that point my<br>
PATH='/opt/bin:/usr/bin:/bin' and I don't have to shuffle the path<br>
every time I add a new product to /opt.<br>
<br>
enjoi<br>
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