Different perl verions not sharing the installed rpms

Question

I have RHEL 32 bit OS, I had installed libwsman1 and openwsman-perl rpm to use wsman queries in my perl script. I have two versions of perl installed - perl5.8.8 and perl5.14.4. My perl script works fine with perl5.8.8 but give "Segmentation fault (Core dump) when I execute it with perl5.14.4. It looks like to me that the modules/library are not available to both the perl versions. If my assumption is correct, how can I make it available to both the perl modules? I am seeing this issue in may linux systems where two different versions of perl are available. Though it works fine if I have only perl5.14.4 on that system. I tried getting the code dump using gdb, the output is something like this - Reading symbols from /usr/bin/perl5.14.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libc.so.6" is not at the expected address

warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations

warning: .dynamic section for "/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2" is not at the expected address

warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations

warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libcrypto.so.6" is not at the expected address

warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations

warning: .dynamic section for "/usr/lib/libz.so.1" is not at the expected address

warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
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Loaded symbols for /lib/libkeyutils.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libselinux.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libselinux.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libsepol.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libsepol.so.1
Core was generated by `perl5.14.4 openwsman_client_FAN.pl'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()

Any help is deeply appreciated.

Thanks ...

Answer 1

Different versions of Perl can't share XS libraries. If your vendor doesn't provide both versions of Perl with libraries for both of them, you have to compile them yourself. cpan should do the hard work for you.

perlbrew can make life easier for you if you don't like playing with environment variables and cpan configs all the time.