RedHat 9 and Perl problems
Posted: July 31st, 2003 | 1 Comment »Silent Scope 4: Gynecologist
Spent most of the afternoon beating my head against the fresh RH9 install on our new little Linux box at work. (It’s an Asus Terminator K7. So small! So cute! So cheap!) Basically, dosage the base perl/CPAN install was failing over various module installs. Turns out that this is easily fixed with export LANG=C. And thus the hate-hate relationship between Redhat and Perl continues – I think it’s been somehow broken in every other release. More info here.
That damn UTF-8 thing on Red Hat and Perl 5.8 has caused *soooooooooo* much trouble. If you’re writing code that’s breaking, add “use bytes;” at the top of each .pm to fix it btw.
Hilariously BTW, Red Hat 8’s sort(1) also slowed down by a factor of several thousand in the default locale as a result of UTF-8.