[gentoo-commits] gentoo-news r40 - in 2010: . 2010-10-22-perl-5.12-upgrade-procedure

[gentoo-commits] gentoo-news r40 - in 2010: . 2010-10-22-perl-5.12-upgrade-procedure

[Torsten Veller (tove)]

Author: tove
Date: 2010-10-22 17:11:42 +0000 (Fri, 22 Oct 2010)
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+Title: Perl 5.12 upgrade procedure
+Author: perl-team <perl@gentoo.org>
+Author: Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org>
+Content-Type: text/plain
+Posted: 2010-10-22
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 1.0
+Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/perl-5.12
+
+==> Run `perl-cleaner --all` after upgrading to a new Perl version! <==
+
+"Perl 5.12 is not binary compatible with prior releases of Perl. If
+you have built extensions (i.e. modules that include C code) using an
+earlier version of Perl, you will need to rebuild and reinstall those
+extensions." [1]
+
+In fact, in Gentoo you currently have to rebuild all Perl modules and
+all binaries linking libperl to get into a consistent state again.
+
+perl-cleaner generates a list of broken packages and passes it to your
+package manager to reinstall them. After reinstalling the packages,
+perl-cleaner outputs a list of files the script could not deal with
+(like modules installed not via the package manager).
+
+See `man perl-cleaner` for its options.
+
+[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.2/INSTALL#Changes_and_Incompatibilities

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