Thanks for the suggestion. It seems odd since libperl.so and libperl.a are in the 5.6.0
directories and seem to have been created when I installed the 5.6.0 version, but I
don't
know where the binary is it thinks it should be using, so recompiling may help.
James
Aaron Patterson wrote:
> You probably have mod_perl compiled with perl 5.00503. Try recompiling
> mod_perl. That may help.
>
> --Aaron
>
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, James McKim wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > In trying to upgrade a RedHat Linux7.0 system I inherited to Perl5.6.0
> > There are several versions of perl installed on the system and I've run
> > into a problem restarting the server. To set a context for you all, I'm
> > not a perl or apache expert, so I may be (OK probably) missing something
> > here.
> >
> > I got the following message when trying to start the server.
> >
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > [Fri Jul 13 10:37:24 2001] [error] Perl 5.00564 required--this is only
> > version 5.00503, stopped at /etc/httpd//lib.pm line 3.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/httpd//lib.pm line 3.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/pickcity/htdocs/init.pl line
> > 1.
> >
> > Syntax error on line 1029 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> > Perl 5.00564 required--this is only version 5.00503, stopped at
> > /etc/httpd//lib.pm line 3.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/httpd//lib.pm line 3.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/pickcity/htdocs/init.pl line
> > 1.
> >
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This didn't make sense because, as I said above, I installed perl5.6.0.
> > So, just to double check, I invoked perl from the command line (from
> > /usr/bin) to ask it what version it is, I got the following:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > [root@localhost pickcity]# perl -v
> >
> > This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-linux
> >
> > Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
> >
> > Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
> > or the
> > GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source
> > kit.
> >
> > Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
> >
> > this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to
> > the
> > Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home
> > Page.
> >
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This is the only perl executable on the system that I can tell.
> >
> > Note that I'm trying to use the "use lib" syntax in init.pl to point
> > Apache and Perl to the set of perl5.6.0 directories where the perl
> > modules live as they doesn't seem to be pointing to the right
> > directories. So, this seems to be sort of a "catch 22" . It's telling me
> > that I don't have the right version, yet when I invoke perl, it tells me
> > that I have a totally different version.
> >
> > It appears that somehow, Apache is trying to use a version of perl other
> > than that currently on the system. I don't know if this means its
> > pointing to modules that are old or even how thinks it knows what the
> > current version is. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > James
> >
> >
