OT: Perl compatibility issue

[Jeff A. Earickson]

uhhh...  How about upgrade perl instead?  I'm currently running 5.8.3
on Solaris 9 with no problems.  5.005 is really old and crusty.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Derek Winkler wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:05:53 -0400
> From: Derek Winkler <dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM>
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> Subject: OT: Perl compatibility issue
>
> I run MailScanner on some Solaris systems.
>
> Unforutnately I did not upgrade Perl before installing MailScanner, so I'm
> running Perl 5.005_03.
>
> I went to install Mail-SpamAssassin-SpamCopURI-0.18 and it complains about
> bytes.pm not being available.
>
> It wasn't available until Perl 5.6.
>
> What I did was comment out "use bytes;" wherever it appeared in the code.
>
> Do any Perl gurus know if this is OK?
>
> I believe that use bytes is the default behaviour of Perl before 5.6.
>
> make test ran clean.
>
> Looking for confirmation before installing on a production system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Derek Winkler
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