Perl 5.8 Any known issues?

[david_252]

Good Morning!!

We have a request to install Perl 5.8.0 on our Nclass running 11.0 in 64 bit. Any known issues with this. Please share.

Thanks
David.

[Rusty Sapper]

Don't know about 5.8. I am running 5.6 on 11.0 64 bit and I have no issues at all.


-Rusty

[david_252]

The machine is not Nclass nut k460 running 64 bit 11.0.

Thanks
David.

[Michael Armbrecht · Accepted solution]

As 5.8.0 has just been released I would check http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ if anything listed there affects production.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

As long as you install a standard perl (no threads, no 64bit), there are no known issues on HP-UX 11.00

You can get my gcc port from https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn or build one yourself using HP C-ANSI-C. Please *READ* README.hpux carefully if you plan to use Oracle. My port is Oracle prepared.

I'm running 5.8.0 for several month now. No severe problems. Be aware that Unicode now actually works, but behaves different (read more reliable and predictable) than 5.6.1