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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:37:38 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: "Gary Nielson" <gary AT garynielson DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin-Perl upgrade and modules
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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
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