Perl DBI 1.52 On El6
Hello guys,
I was told by the client to install Perl DBI version 1.52 on a el6 box, by default el6 branch comes with DBI version 1.6x, this version is AFAIK not the desired one.
First I tried installing DBI 1.52 from some rpm package [1], which had some dependencies, Perl 5.8.8 and dbd.4.4.x, this last package was also present el6, so it made conflict and it was not possible to install DBI 1.52 from a rpm.
Then, I downloaded version 1.52 [2], and tried to compiled it, but it failed while doing the make test. I’m not sure if it is not a problem, because while doing make, it did not show error/failure messages.
Finally, it seems I’d have to compile Perl 5.8.8 by hand, and then try to add DBI module also. Is this possible to install it safely and make it coexist with default Perl version (5.10.1) in el6 ?
I’m also writing to DBI user list, about make test failure messages. But maybe, I guess, it is failing because it is not supported by Perl 5.10.1
and Perl 5.8.8 does.
No clue about this, in my opinion it should compile with Perl 5.10.1
Regards.
One thought on - Perl DBI 1.52 On El6
You might want to try installing the version of DBI you want using local::lib, which can be done with something like (this is using cpan minus):
cpanm –local-lib=/path/to/custom/location DBI@1.52
then in your Perl script:
use local::lib ‘/path/to/custom/location’;
If you need to do a full compile of perl, use perlbrew. You don’t want to mess with the system version of Perl in any way if you can avoid it.
~ Brian Mathis
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