Upgrade to Perl 5.10.0
On December 18th, 2007, the Perl Foundation announces the release of Perl 5.10, the first major upgrade to the wildly popular dynamic programming language in over five years.Perl 5.10 brings a lot of new features to the Perl programming language. You can get a glimpse of them at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html. This page will tell you how to upgrade to Perl 5.10.
Upgrading on Windows
ActivePerl
I've always had a lot of luck using ActivePerl on Windows, and you can get version 5.10 from their site. Just link to ActivePerl.com and poke around for the download. Yes, ActivePerl is free; just keep following the "Download" links to get it. ActiveState (the company) wants to sell prepackaged DVDs that have ActivePerl and half a dozen other development tools on them, but the interpreter itself is a free download.Strawberry Perl
I've never personally used Strawberry Perl, but I've heard some good things about it. Apparently it's just like the standard Perl that comes preinstalled on all Unix/Linux/Mac OS systems, but is for Windows. It's also fully CPAN compatible, which makes it that much better than ActiveState's PPM system. You can get Strawberry Perl at StrawberryPerl.com.Upgrading on Linux
Since the Windows distributions of Perl come in binary form which install themselves just like any other piece of Windows software, this tutorial instead explains how to compile Perl 5.10 for a Linux machine. In this tutorial, CentOS 5 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be used, however the procedure should be quite similar for other distributions of Linux as well.Note: You may be tempted to do a `yum remove perl` to remove the 5.8 version that your distribution came with. Don't. I'll give an explanation why later on.
Does your vendor already have Perl 5.10?
If you can install Perl 5.10 via yum, apt, portage, or whatever your package manager is, I highly recommend you do it. It's always better to install things so that your package manager is aware of their existence rather than to go ahead and install something behind its back. If all you can get is Perl 5.8, though, you'll need to compile it yourself.Download the Perl Source
Just link to http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/ and click the "Download" link at the top of the page. That should get you the source code to the most recent version of Perl, which is currently 5.10.0. Download it, extract it somewhere, and open up a terminal.Make and Install
This is the procedure I used to compile Perl. I logged on as root for the entire process; you may wish to wait until the `make install` phase to switch to root, or do a `sudo make install`.My system already had all the dependencies installed, so I can't give you a clear list of all the packages you'll need to be able to compile Perl. However, I know you'll need GNU Make and probably the GNU C Compiler. These can be installed quite easily on pretty much every Linux distribution using their package manager.
CLI:
yum install make yum install gcc
- Switch to root.
CLI:Enter the root password and hit enter.
su -
- Change to the directory you extracted Perl to. I extracted mine to
my regular user's home directory.
CLI:
cd /home/user/perl-5.10.0
- Configure the installation. This phase will make sure all the
dependencies are installed and guess some default options.
It's usually pretty good at guessing.
CLI:The -Dusethreads option is to compile the interpreter to support threads (which I recommend; there's no reason I can see why you SHOULDN'T compile with threads).
sh Configure -de -Dusethreads
- Run the standard make, make test, and make install commands. Note
that `make install` must be executed as root, so if you're playing
it safe and keeping root out of this until `make install`, you'll
need to `sudo make install` instead (or switch to root, `cd` back
to the source directory, and then do `make install`
CLI:
make make test make install
Post Configuration
By the time Perl 5.10 finished installing, I now have two different versions of Perl installed: the previous 5.8 version and my new 5.10. Like I said before, you may be tempted to try and remove version 5.8, but don't. I've still yet to get to the reason why.On my system, /usr/local/bin/perl was version 5.10, but /usr/bin/perl was still the old 5.8 version. For general use, this was okay, because the new version of Perl showed up earlier in my $PATH statement, so that the `perl` command at the terminal executed the newer version. However, all of my CGI scripts on my web server were using /usr/bin/perl, the old version.
Code:
So this was a simple fix: just symlink the old binary to the new binary.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
CLI:
What we did was we renamed the old perl to be "perl58" (so if you absolutely need
it in the future, you can rename it back). Then we made a symbolic link to the
new perl binary so that the location of the old binary still pointed to it.su - enter root's password mv /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl58 ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl
Note, however, that Perl 5.8 and 5.10 have their own module paths, so if you installed any modules for Perl 5.8, you'll have to reinstall them for 5.10.
Why Not Remove Perl 5.8
Well, for a visual explanation, this is what `yum` wanted to remove when I did a simple `yum remove perl` command:CLI:
Basically, there are just too many packages in Linux that rely on Perl, and to
remove Perl, you have to remove all of these packages. Some of the major ones
in that list include the entire GNOME desktop environment, the entire OpenOffice
suite, and the entire X Window Server itself. So, it's a lot easier to just keep
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To prevent yum from modifying your installation of Perl, edit the file /etc/yum.conf with your favorite text editor and add the line:
/etc/yum.conf:
That way, yum won't be tempted to update what it believes is your current version
of Perl (which, on Red Hat Enterprise systems, yum isn't likely to upgrade to
Perl 5.10 of its own free will anytime soon, so you'd be more likely to get a new
stable release of 5.8, which would undermine your efforts to upgrade to 5.10).
exclude=perl
Upgrade Complete!
Now that you have Perl 5.10 installed, you can start playing around with the new features. To that end, you can follow the link I mentioned up at the top of the page and click around to see how to get started with Perl 5.10.
2008/01/04
~Kirsle