I just wanna add something to this, since I've been fighting with this problem for quite some time recently :)
After updating my FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE I got installed perl 5.6.0 on top of my 5.00503 and it was all dandy... until I updated a CPAN module which wanted to install 5.6.1 on top again. That left me with a system with 3 perls but only two of them known to the system (since 5.6.1 was installed by CPAN and that did not update the system as the system expected I guess). And just to make everything perfect 6.5.1 was the one perl install my system "didn't know about" but it was the active one in form of the one being linked in /usr/bin/perl (from /usr/local/bin/perl[5.6.1]). These preconditions made all of my following efforts to compile mod_perl very unsuccessful... It turns out that when CPAN updates perl for you, it DOES NOT update your /etc/make.conf file. I simply corrected two lines inthere: PERL_VER=5.6.1 PERL_VERSION=5.6.1 And then I could recompile everything w/o any errors whatsoever... now that felt good after battling for 12++ hours or something like that. Mind you I rarely edit my make.conf since it's essentially working with everything here! Maybe this is more a cry out to CPAN to put a note after it installs perl for you... to say "Now go edit your make.conf to reflect the installed versions". FreeBSD have scripts like "use.perl system" and "use.perl port" but CPAN does not seem to either use or respect that. Maybe it's just me, but I think there's a leak here. Best regards // Nicolai > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoffrey Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 5:27 AM > To: Adam Garcia > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Newbie install problems > > > > > ===> Building for mod_perl-1.26 > > (cd ./apaci && > PERL5LIB=/usr/ports/www/mod_perl/work/mod_perl-1.26/lib > > make) > > Perl lib version (5.00503) doesn't match executable version > (5.006001) > > at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach/Config.pm line 7. > > I saw this just this week at work - turned out that > /usr/bin/perl wasn't > symlinked to /usr/local/bin/perl, so the version of perl they > were running with > (due to the user's PATH) wasn't the same that make was picking up. > > you should probably fix your system, since it's sometimes > convenient to have > /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl be the same. in the > meanwhile, you can > always use the absolute path to the perl binary you want to > use when buliding > mod_perl > > $ /path/to/perl-5.006 Makefile.PL \ > APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache \ > ... > $ make and friends > > HTH > > --Geoff >
