On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:
> I can't compile the perl module because libperl is not a shared
> library. So what I'd like to do is simply download the 5.6 perl source,
> compile, and go.
>
> I'm using Red Had 6.1, which has the perl-5.00503-6 rpm installed. Of
> course there are a jillion other packages which depend on this one.
>
> So my question is, what happens if I rpm -e perl, then make, make
> install the latest 5.6 source? Is my whole world going to fall apart?
The best idea for you is to install SRPM for 5.005, and then change the
configuration to build libperl.so, and manually copy libperl.so to
/usr/lib.
-alex