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Upgrading Perl, making Links see it!
Hi: I was runniong CPAN yesterday, upgrading like a crazyman, and one upgrade asked me to upgrade from perl 5.8.6 to 5.8.8- so I did. However, Links (in setup/Environments) still reports 5.8.6, and the paths to 5.8.6. In SSH, when I run perl -v, it shows "This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-freebsd". How do I get Links to recognize the new Perl? Also, any thoughts on upping MySQL to version 5?
dave

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Re: [carfac] Upgrading Perl, making Links see it! In reply to
Are you running under mod_perl? You'll need to restart apache if you do.

Adrian
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Re: [brewt] Upgrading Perl, making Links see it! In reply to
Yep- Mod_Perl. But we have restarted a number of times since I upgraded... still shows as 5.8.6....
dave

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Re: [carfac] Upgrading Perl, making Links see it! In reply to
I guess then you have multiple versions installed and your GLinks one is pointing to the older one (check the #!/usr/bin/perl line in the cgi's).

Adrian
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Re: [brewt] Upgrading Perl, making Links see it! In reply to
Another possibility is that you need to recompile mod_perl.

Adrian