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[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

>Er... on RH 9, and RH8... and for that matter my remaining RH7.3 system, 
>bootstrap.sh still works fine.  All of them now have perl 5.8.  There 
>are enough silly little differences between 5.6 and 5.8 that I can't 
>stand to have 2 different versions.  Since no one told me I couldn't, I 
>just did it, and xastir worked.
>
>Now, the same's not true for another poject: I spent weeks finding 
>glitches in programming - that shouldn't have happened and were, 
>technically poor practice, if widely accepted - caused by an initial 
>migration to 5.8.  But the xastir stuff just worked.  At least for me.
>
>73, gerry
>
>Orrin Winton wrote:
>> How do you make sure you keep Perl 5.6?
>> 
>> Do a network update and choose not to update the Perl components?
>> 
>> Orrin wn1z
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> --------- Original Message ---------
>> 
>> DATE: Sat, 17 May 2003 11:10:02
>> From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
>> To: Kirk Mefford <kc2elo at softhome.net>
>> Cc: xastir at krypton.hscs.virginia.edu
>> 
>> 
>>>On Sat, 17 May 2003, Kirk Mefford wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>BTW I also noticed a previous goof on my part that I had perl 5.8 installed 
>>>>before.  I haven't noticed any problems so why is 5.6 the one I'm supposed 
>>>>to have?
>>>
>>>There were reports that at the "./bootstrap.sh" or the "./configure"
>>>stage, perl5.8 broke things.
>>>
>>>Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
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