Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:45:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Gerrit P. Haase" cc: Gary Nielson , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin-Perl upgrade and modules In-Reply-To: <1331824927336.20040825133738@familiehaase.de> Message-ID: References: <200408250038.i7P0c5Pg020485@ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com> <1331824927336.20040825133738@familiehaase.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Gary wrote: > > > The other day, I decided to finally update all my cygwin packages with > > setup.exe -- including perl. Went from 5.8.0 to 5.8.5 and now realize that > > the path to all the modules I installed is under the older version at > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 instead of /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5. > > I've always shied away from upgrading perl in Linux so don't have much > > experience dealing with modules from older installations. Must I re-install > > all these modules, or can I add a path to them in my scripts, or should I > > revert back to the older version of perl and if so, how? Any help > > appreciated. > > It is not binary compatible (IIRC, 5.8.0 was not threaded), so you > should recompile all modules which require compilation, pure perl > modules may be moved from 5.8.0 to 5.8.5 path, however I always rebuild > them from scratch. > > The autobundle command in a CPAN shell is meant to create a list of > packages which you have installed (run before unistalling), after update > you may simply run `install autobundle_$date` in the CPAN shell, this > pulls all listed modules and tries to install it. > > > Gerrit Gerrit, Would it make sense to always run the autobundle CPAN command in the perl preremove script? This way, the list will be available for the postinstall script or a (recently proposed) migration assistance script to do what it will. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/