Re: [MacPerl] linux

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 2:32 AM -0500 11/21/99, Eric Schissel wrote:
>I don't know about MkLinux.  I know that the RedHat packages that one can
>download with, or which come with the CD of, linuxPPC, include the
>UNIX/Linux version of perl5.005.  (I just downloaded it on Friday, and
>will try to install Linux soon ...)  This is, to my knowledge, the latest
>version of Perl.
>-Eric Schissel

On Linux, or any Unix, you should learn how to build software from 
source; that way you can run the latest and tailor them to your 
needs.  Building Perl from source isn't as brain-dead easy as 
building things that use GNU autoconf, but it's still pretty easy. 
Just make sure when you install Linux that you install all of the 
"developer" packages for the packages you choose to install, and you 
shouldn't have any trouble.  Linux distributors seem to have a habit 
of shipping older versions of some software.  Perl was one of the 
notorious examples in an earlier RedHat Linux distribution; they 
shipped a development version instead of the already available stable 
successor.

The latest mainstream Perl version is 5.005_03; the latest 5.6-to-be 
is 5.005_62, I think.  If you're into self-abuse, you can even build 
threaded perl on ppc-linux.   The sources, of course, are available 
on CPAN.

--
Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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