Pete Biggs schrieb: > >> >> Thanks, I tried rh-perl, and it worked for a test. It does not replace the existing >> perl installation. You have to explicitly use that version. > > Yes, that's how SCL works. A lot of system software uses perl (and > python and gcc) so replacing the installed version without testing the > effect it might have on the system is not advisable. i.e. things will > break. The whole point of the RHEL/CentOS is that the versions of > software are stable (strong and stable even) and that everything is > exhaustively tested to make sure things work. > >> >> Im not sure if thats possible for CGI. I do get 5.24 after running >> 'scl enable rh-perl524 bash'. Is there a way to get that for CGI? >> > > All (!) that the 'scl enable' command does is to set environment > variables for things like PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you can do that > for the CGI environment, then it will pick up the correct perl version. > But don't ever be tempted to make updated versions the default. Apparently that doesn´t work because apache uses mod_perl, which keeps it stuck at the ancient version of perl. But there is a package 'rh-perl524-mod_perl'. It pulls in 'httpd24-httpd' and other things. Now if I can figure out how to use that, it´ll probably work ... > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >