[CentOS] more recent perl version?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Wed May 24 14:42:56 UTC 2017
On Wed, 24 May 2017, hw wrote:
> Paul Heinlein schrieb:
>> On Tue, 23 May 2017, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>> > hw wrote:
>> > >
>> > > are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in
>> > > Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the
>> > > state feature is required.
>>
>> Perl 5.24 is available in SCL, in the centos-sclo-rh repository.
>>
> 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.
Not replacing the existing system Perl is a feature, not a bug. It
allows the 'Enterprise' side of CentOS to keep going with no
unexpected surprises.
> I?m not sure if that?s possible for CGI. I do get 5.24 after
> running 'scl enable rh-perl524 bash'. Is there a way to get that
> for CGI?
It all depends on how you launch your CGI, but in general there
shouldn't be a problem beginning your script with
#!/opt/rh/.../perl
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