Dear All,

has anyone managed to get Perl 5.8 installed on Debian 7 Wheezy? if yes can you please share the how to as i've been struggling to get it to work.

Thanks,
Badar

Isn't that a bit on the old side?

yes, unfortunately the stuff i work with only work with the old version of Perl ... so need to get that working on debian 7.

Well that sounds strange but what exactly is the problem you are having?

What specific error messages are you getting?

Where did you get the package?

How did you install or attempt to install the package?

I should say that I know little about perl so hopefully someone else will jump in. The above questions are standard questions that need answers so that meaningful help can be given.

Some information on your hardware would be nice to have too but probably not crucial in this case.

Wow, good luck. Might be easier to re-work the code.

Thanks Andrew for the link i've managed to wget and configure, but when i compile /make I get the error messages below

make
cc -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl \
miniperlmain.o opmini.o libperl.a
libperl.a(pp.o): In function `Perl_pp_pow':
pp.c.text+0x29b7): undefined reference to `pow'
libperl.a(pp.o): In function `Perl_pp_modulo':
pp.c.text+0x3519): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c.text+0x354f): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c.text+0x3960): undefined reference to `fmod'
libperl.a(pp.o): In function `Perl_pp_atan2':
pp.c.text+0x864d): undefined reference to `atan2'


Is this because the new version of debian/ubunutu libraries are OLD can you help to either downgrade the libraries or get this to work.

and more

libperl.a(pp.o): In function `Perl_pp_sin':
pp.c.text+0x8753): undefined reference to `sin'
libperl.a(pp.o): In function `Perl_pp_cos':
pp.c.text+0x8893): undefined reference to `cos'
libperl.a(pp.o): In function `Perl_pp_exp':
pp.c.text+0x8b93): undefined reference to `exp'
libperl.a(pp.o): In function `Perl_pp_log':
pp.c.text+0x8cdd): undefined reference to `log'

You would be best served by running this either in VirtualBox or a chroot.

# 6 .

What's the purpose of 'miniperl' ? ?

http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=377735 >

I dont understand? the problem is with compiling the perl 5.8 i downloaded from the net? why shall i run it in vbox?

but its perl 5.9 right?

Ref. post # 6.

Why do you want "miniperl" ?

It's just a 10 year old limited version of Perl.

and how can I download this on a newer version of Debian?

thank you

When I try to compile perl5.8 on my debian/ubuntu i get

What is the file extension used for shared libraries? [so]

Checking for optional libraries...
No -lsfio.
No -lsocket.
No -lbind.
No -linet.
No -lnsl.
No -lnm.
No -lndbm.
No -lgdbm.
No -ldbm.
No -ldb.
No -lmalloc.
No -ldl.
No -ldld.
No -lld.
No -lsun.
No -lm.
No -lc.
No -lcposix.
No -lposix.
No -lndir.
No -ldir.
No -lcrypt.
No -lsec.
No -lucb.
No -lBSD.
No -lPW.
No -lx.
No -lutil.

In order to compile perl5 on your machine, a number of libraries
are usually needed. Include any other special libraries here as well.
Say "none" for none. The default list is almost always right.

Run make depend now? [y]
sh ./makedepend MAKE=make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/*****/perl-5.6.2'
sh writemain lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a lib/auto/B/B.a lib/auto/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.a lib/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.a lib/auto/Devel/DProf/DProf.a lib/auto/Devel/Peek/Peek.a lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.a lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.a lib/auto/IO/IO.a lib/auto/IPC/SysV/SysV.a lib/auto/Opcode/Opcode.a lib/auto/POSIX/POSIX.a lib/auto/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.a lib/auto/Socket/Socket.a lib/auto/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.a lib/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.a lib/auto/attrs/attrs.a lib/auto/re/re.a > writemain.tmp
sh mv-if-diff writemain.tmp perlmain.c
echo av.c scope.c op.c doop.c doio.c dump.c hv.c mg.c perl.c perly.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c regexec.c utf8.c gv.c sv.c taint.c toke.c util.c deb.c run.c universal.c xsutils.c globals.c perlio.c perlapi.c miniperlmain.c perlmain.c | tr ' ' '\n' >.clist
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/*****/perl-5.6.2'
./makedepend: 1: ./makedepend: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
make: *** [depend] Error 2

If you compile perl5 on a different machine or from a different object
directory, copy the Policy.sh file from this object directory to the
new one before you run Configure -- this will help you with most of
the policy defaults.