Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: Perl version conflict after upgrade to Debian 11 Bullseye

Thanks Ellie,

It turns out that the full-upgrade  process hadn't removed all traces of 
perl 5.28, after removing perl-modules-5.28 with apt, manually deleting 
some 5.28 directories that I found, and removing --with-perl from my 
options, I was able to re-compile and get everything working.

The server is in a virtual machine dedicated to running cyrus imap and 
postfix so I don't need a multi-perl setup, it was just something that 
was left over from the upgrade.

I have now repeated process on the live server and everything seems to 
be working normally. My current version of Cyrus imapd is from Debian's 
testing distribution version 3.4.1-2, running on bullseye.

Regards

Jim

On 01/09/2021 01:58, ellie timoney wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, at 9:09 PM, [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>> The script option for perl is --with-perl /usr/bin/perl which is 
>> where 5.32.1 is located
>>
>> What am I missing? How do I re-compile cyrus-imapd to use the later 
>> version of perl?
>
> The --with-perl option is implemented pretty inconsistently and I 
> probably wouldn't trust it.  There's an open issue about it here: 
> https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2887
>
> If you don't specify "--with-perl" when configuring Cyrus, then it'll 
> use whichever perl it finds, which ought to be the system one and work 
> properly (it does on buster, anyway; I haven't upgraded to bullseye yet).
>
> If recompiling without specifying a perl doesn't help, then I'd guess 
> something in bullseye has changed and we'll need to figure out what so 
> we can accommodate it.  Or maybe you have Cyrus perl modules left 
> behind from your previous Cyrus install, and cyradm is accidentally 
> using the old ones instead of the new ones.
>
> It might also be worth checking whether you have multiple perls 
> installed on your system.  I assume you don't but if you do, that 
> might be a problem.  If you do have multiple perls, I assume that 
> means you use perl yourself, and know how to check your perl library 
> paths/etc.
>
> If it turns out something in bullseye has changed, anything about it 
> you could add to the issue above would be helpful!
>
> Cheers,
>
> ellie
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