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Re: Module compilation hellby Notromda (Pilgrim) |
on Mar 31, 2004 at 00:28 UTC ( [id://341157]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I hate to say this, but it may well have to do with your choice of platforms. Hear me out on this, it's been an eye-opener for me. I don't know anything about OSX (I'd like to!) but I have become very disenchanted with anything redhat based since redhat 8.0, and I assume that fedora core is based on that tree.
I have had many problems getting various modules to compile right on RH8 and 9. Mostly it had to do with their modifications to support unicode, but there's more to it than I understand. This affected more than just perl; I had a heck of a time getting apache, mod_perl, mod_php, mod_ssl, and a few others to compile correctly. I actually gave up on hoping to have all those in one server. Since redhat dropped the ball after 9.0, I started looking around. My first experiment was to try trustix secure linux - a very stripped down distro, great for servers. Boy was I surprised when the above configuration compiled correctly on the first try! I haven't had any trouble with perl modules either. I'm guessing that several distros have so many "modifications" built in that they no longer resemble the standards that the various packages depend on. I'm really not trying to troll here, but this may not be a perl problem, but an OS problem.
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