On Wednesday 05 November 2003 04:44, Stevens, Julian C wrote:
>The version of perl on my amanda server is rather old (5.002).
>However, as it was installed about 6 years ago, as part of another
>application, I'm a bit nervous about upgrading it.
>Would it be sensible to install 2 versions of perl?
>If I install the latest version of perl in non-standard directories,
> e.g. /usr/local/perl/bin and /usr/local/perl/lib, is there an
> option to configure, that would enable these to be recognised when
> amanda is built? Failing that, if I add /usr/local/perl/bin to the
> start of my PATH variable, and add -L /usr/local/perl/lib to
> LDFLAGS, would this have the desired effect.
>
>Any advice gratefully received,
>
>Julian
I have updated perl a bit beyond that, and don't recall that it ever
broke older scripts unless they were broken to start with. However,
coming up to date from 5.002 would be quite a jump, so I'd be a bit
nervous. Try it in intermediate steps maybe.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Bijnens [SMTP:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:27 PM
>> To: Stevens, Julian C
>> Cc: amanda users (E-mail)
>> Subject: Re: amstatus: uninitialized value
>>
>> Stevens, Julian C wrote:
>> > Use of uninitialized value at
>> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/Getopt/Long.pm line
>>
>> 602.
>>
>> What version of perl do you have?
>> --
>> Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16
>> 397.511
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