[ic] Interchange on Debian Sarge

[Stefan Hornburg]

Marco Mescoli wrote:
>>>My problem is to install not threaded perl 5.6.1 and remove or hide
> 
> threaded
> 
>>>perl 5.8.4
>>
>>Marco,
>>
>>1) You do not want to run 5.6.1, you want to run whatever is the latest
> 
> Perl,
> 
>>   as long as it is non-threaded
>>2) You can't remove or hide system Perl installation (too many things
> 
> depend
> 
>>   on it). What you can do, however, is install non-threaded Perl in a
> 
> different
> 
>>   location (say, /usr/local/) and then inside Interchange source run
>>   /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL
>>   make && make test && make install
> 
> 
> Ok:
> Downloaded perl source 5.8.4, not thread compiled and installed in
> alternative dir: OK,
> compiled and installed interchange sources 4.9.8  (I MUST work with this
> release) with Bundle::Interchange
> calling /usr/local/bin/perl not threaded version as you say with previous.
> It seems all ok even with mysql  but the UI admin pages not work:
> 
> | ... errno 22, key "kaccess.main" at ..../Vend/Table/Common.pm line 432,
> <IN> line 3.|
> 
> I have digged mailing list and found Mike Heins reply: "for this problem you
> must change perl"
> It seems a problem about "gdbm" perl module.
> 
> Now: ? Install and compile unthreaded perl 5.6.1 in a enviroment with
> threaded perl 5.8.4 ?
> Not a good idea as you say.
> 
> Trash Debian Sarge and install Debian Woody ?
> Possible but a lot of work lost.

No, but install libgdbm-dev before building Perl.

Bye
	Racke