[Catalyst] [OT] compiling perl/apache from scratch

[Jonathan Rockway]

> Now I try to run my old cat test suite ... it seems I need to go to
> cpan for each module that was previously installed.
> is there any way to avoid this when upgrading perl ?

Is there a way to avoid it?  Yes; trickery with @INC.  But I wouldn't
recommend it because you have no idea if your CPAN'd modules even work
under 5.8.8 -- you didn't run their test suites, and their (potential)
prerequisite core modules may have been changed.  (Not to mention new
features in the interpreter.)

> or at least a
> quick way to find back all the stuff you had installed and install it
> all in one hit?

http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.87/lib/CPAN.pm#autobundle

Autobundle your old @INC, then install that bundle with your new perl.
Should work.

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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