[Bioperl-l] red hat 9 & perl bugs

[Kris Boulez]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:36, Mike Muratet wrote:
> Charles
> 
> I had a very wierd problem with the perl that's bundled with RH9. I was
> trying to implment the 'mirror' package. There a method in it:
> 
>  if( /^\s*([^\s=+]+)\s*([=+])(.*)?$/ ){
>            assign groups
>            do other stuff
>         } else {
>            complain
>         }
> 
> which should parse
> 
>        package=defaults
> 
> but it didn't. I posed the problem to several lists and all I ever got back
> was 'works on mine'. I never did figure it out. I had to install a fresh
> perl to get it to work.
> 

RH9 is pretty borken with respect to I18N (internalization and stuff). I
saw the same problems (also speed is bad).
I have the following in /etc/sysconfig/i18n

 #LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 LANG="en_US"


Kris,
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