Re: Perl and RH9

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

BTW, to use any SSL Perl app requires the ::SSLeay 
module.  That is broken in the RH9 distro AND you can't install it 
without recompiling OpenSSL AND Perl!  "You must compile with the
same 
compiler and switches used for OpenSSL and Perl."  And, of course,
once you've recompiled Perl, you lose ALL modules (like CPAN and
libwww) and have to reinstall them as well.  

You're right! UTF8 is a major gotcha!  I changed LANG=en_US.UTF8 to
LANG=en_US in my .bash_profile.  That setting causes a lot of compile
warnings and breaks several products (Adobe Acrobat Reader).  I had
to change that before Perl would compile.

--- mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> From a recent P5P summary:
> 
> MakeMaker and RedHat 9
> Michael G Schwern currently gets a load of bug reports about
> MakeMaker not 
> working on RedHat 9. This is because RedHat 9 ships with a snapshot
> of the 
> maintenance branch of perl, which corrects some of the UTF8-related
> bugs, but 
> unfortunately one of the remaining bugs seems to bite MakeMaker
> especially bad, 
> as says Jarkko.
> 
> The workaround is to set the environment variable LANG to C before
> building a 
> module.
> 
>     http://xrl.us/hwk
> 
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