[311] in bug-owl
Re: athena installs have wrong perl library on 9.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Mon Dec 29 18:18:25 2003
Message-Id: <200312292318.SAA18470@mission-control.mit.edu>
To: David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:42:40 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:18:23 -0500
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
> The perl binary (5.6.1) in owl has several hard-coded @INC paths that
> point to directories /usr/athena specific to 5.6.1; however, on Athena
> 9.2 these directories don't exist, as the local installation is 5.8.0.
>
> I don't think the correct solution is just setting PERL5LIB to point
> to the 5.8.0 dirs, because they may be incompatible with 5.6.1; and
> upgrading owl's perl to 5.8.0 will just break it for people using pre-9.2.
> I think the best solution might be to maintain lib dirs on ktools that match
> the currently compiled version, but there might be a better solution.
Well, this should be fixed for the moment. There's now separate
directories based on the AFS sysname. Of course, that's not a great
solution. Is that what you were suggesting with lib dirs in ktools?
Or did you mean maintaing perl libraries there, or something else?
The current situation is not great.
kretch
