Upgrades and source-compiled software

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 18:47, gvim wrote:
> I use source-compiled Perl and PostgreSQL under /sw/bin. Does this mean I
> need to recompile, along with all my Perl modules :-(, when upgrading to
> 11.04? What affects this:
>
> - gcc version?
> - kernel version?

I don't think that recompilation will be needed. Gcc or kernel version
don't matter. Perhaps if some libraries have changed, but I'm not an
expert. But that would sound like a drastic change and I'm sure that it
would be announced in the release notes. Have you read them?

Anyway I'm quite sure that as long as your Perl version doesn't change
that you don't have to recompile any Perl modules.