Perl 5.10 and Squeezecenter

[gharris999]

I just installed yesterday's 7.1 on a new Fedora 9 box. It seems to work well. Is there any chance that the changes to support perl 5.10 will filter down into the 7.0.x code?

[andyg]

No, sorry. 5.10 support required an update to DBI which I'm not ready to do in 7.0. We may not even have another 7.0 release anyway.

[pfarrell]

andyg wrote:
> No, sorry. 5.10 support required an update to DBI which I'm not ready
> to do in 7.0. We may not even have another 7.0 release anyway.

Which I take to mean that 7.1 or 7.2 is the future, rather than this is
the end of all.

--
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/

[andyg]

Of course.

[bgmilne]

Xhorder wrote:
> I also just upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1 and can't get squeezecenter to
> start.

# urpmi perl-devel

No direct help. I gave up on Mandriva a while back, moved to Debian.
Mandriva removed the default installation of a lot of development tools.

Please don't troll.

I don't know why, but it made keeping up with things like SqueezeCenter
more work than I wanted.

Perhaps others can help, or holler and I'll help you move to debian.

The fact that other distributions have no sane library policies (e.g. Fedora, some packages ship headers in the "main" package, some in the "devel" package, some are named by the soname, some by the tarball name) doesn't mean that the one that does is "removing the default installation of a lot of development tools". It just means that they aren't installed by default.

[bugfixer]

So happy to see this:

Version: 7.5.5 - r32385 @ Mon May 2 02:03:19 PDT 2011
....
Server HTTP Port Number: 9000
Operating system: Debian - EN - koi8-r
Platform Architecture: i686-linux
Perl Version: 5.12.3 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
MySQL Version: 5.1.56-1
Total Players Recognized: 2

Playing similar tricks as I've described earlier (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...6&postcount=22) I brought my SBS back to live after debian unstable moved to perl 5.12. Let me know if someone is interested in detailed instructions

[micahel]

Hi bugfixer,

I'm interested in your fix as I ran into the same issue now. Updated Debian testing and now SBS does not start successfully.

Any idea why? or how to fix it?

Thanks, Michael

So happy to see this:

Version: 7.5.5 - r32385 @ Mon May 2 02:03:19 PDT 2011
....
Server HTTP Port Number: 9000
Operating system: Debian - EN - koi8-r
Platform Architecture: i686-linux
Perl Version: 5.12.3 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
MySQL Version: 5.1.56-1
Total Players Recognized: 2

Playing similar tricks as I've described earlier (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...6&postcount=22) I brought my SBS back to live after debian unstable moved to perl 5.12. Let me know if someone is interested in detailed instructions

[Vinz]

Let me know if someone is interested in detailed instructions

A resounding "me too" here. I'm not the most noobish of Linux users but once again Squeezebox server has me completely flummoxed as to how to get it to start again. Downgrading to Perl 5.10 isn't really an option as that would mean downgrading tons of other packages.

[sim909]

Take a look at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88250, it may help

[Vinz]

Take a look at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88250, it may help

Awesome, I finally got it to work with your instructions!

Some notes:

Don't bother trying to compile a 7.5.* version, the mysql included in there won't compile with gcc 4.5 (and the patches I found on the mysql bugtracker didn't work for me, they were for a newer mysql version). The 7.6 version works though.

I ended up with a i386-linux-thread-multi-64int directory (obviously this differs per architecture). But, when moving it to /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.12 it DIDN'T work if I stripped the -64int bit off. No idea why, as the original directory there was named i386-linux-thread-multi (so without the -64int bit too). Took me a while to figure that one out