Fwd: (RADIATOR) non-standard location for perl?

[Mike McCauley]

Hi Neal,

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:22, Hugh Irvine wrote:
....
> Hugh
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> > From: Neale Banks <neale at lowendale.com.au>
> > Date: Thu Aug 08, 2002  12:58:17 PM Australia/Melbourne
> > To: radiator at open.com.au
> > Subject: (RADIATOR) non-standard location for perl?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Grepping through Radiator 3.1, it appears that perl is assumed to be in
> > both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl - is there any recommended
> > way
> > of changing the location of perl (other than hand-editing the #! lines)?
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I need to upgrade an OLD version of Radiator
> > which is on a system which doesn't yet have perl 5.005 (highest is perl
> > 5.004).  Looking over the perl-5.005 INSTALL file, it mentions there
> > that
> > this upgrade can be tricky and the installed modules will need to be
> > rebuilt - but Tux only knows what I'll break going down that path, so my
> > incliniation is to install perl-5.005 as say (only)
> > /usr/local/bin/perl5.005 (and, for now, not upgrade /usr/local/bin/perl
> > nor /usr/bin/perl).
> >
> > Speaking of perl versions, Radiator 3.1 (and presumably several prior
> > versions) require perl 5.005 - but "perl Makefile.PL" appears to run
> > happily with 5.004 and then "make test" fails in bizzare ways (which I
> > assume are due to requiring perl 5.005).  Is there any reason that "perl
> > Makefile.PL" doesn't either explicitly depend on 5.005 or check the perl
> > version and complain appropriately?

There is a requre at the top of radiusd that requires 5.005.
But perhaps you are right: the Makefile.PL should have that dependency too. 
Added to for the next release.

Recent versions added some 5.005 dependent constructs (hence the change in the 
require). I the the last version that could be expected to work with 5.004 
would be 2.18.2 or thereabouts.


Cheers.



> >
> > Thanks,
> > Neale.
> >
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