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Subject: Re: epics-perl & perlapi-5.10.1
From: Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:14:45 -0400

On 03/11/13 18:34, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 2013-03-11 Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> epics-dev gets a new dependency on "perl (>= 5.10.0)".
> 
> As I said before, I don't think a libCap5.so built with Perl 5.10 is going to 
> work if you try to load it into any other version of Perl (5.10.x might be Ok, 
> but 5.12 or 5.14 will not).

Apologies for the lack of clarity.  libCap5 is in 'epics-perl' not
'epics-dev'.  For this reason I give 'epics-perl' a strict dep.
(perlapi-5.10.0).

...
> My point was that Ubuntu obviously has different Perl versions than Debian but 
> Martin was still able to load your packages.  BTW Perl 5.10 is over 5 years 
> old now, it was released in December 2007 (not that you could fix that, I do 
> realize).

Yup I know, and no I can't.  The next Debian release will have perl 5.14.2.

...
> A regular EPICS installation can cope with multiple Perl versions, you just 
> have to rebuild in the src/cap5 directory with PATH set to pick up each Perl 
> version; copies of libCap5.so will then be installed into the appropriate 
> directories and can coexist.

Good to know.

References:
epics-perl & perlapi-5.10.1 Martin Konrad
Re: epics-perl & perlapi-5.10.1 Michael Davidsaver
Re: epics-perl & perlapi-5.10.1 Andrew Johnson

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