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diff --git a/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt b/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0be2ab3 --- /dev/null +++ b/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +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 |