At 8:18 Uhr -0600 07.01.1998, David Morton wrote: >Greetings from Kansas, > >I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has >been included in the "stable" release, currently named bo, I think. > >A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you >have noticed on your security page. However, the IRC people >told me that 5.004 only existed in hamm. This is *NOT* acceptable. >I am not able to move to a glibc base at this time, and I use >Linux in a commercial environment. I need STABLE, and I need >secure. (As well as some features of 5.004 to compile MySQL)
For mysql, try running the configure script with the flag '--without-perl'. It should then skip the perl packages when compiling... you can then compile the perl stuff separately, if you need it. Scott Johmsweg 9, D-21266 Jesteburg, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .