From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 17:31:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4EE16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from portnoy.lbl.gov (portnoy.lbl.gov [131.243.2.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CAE243D2D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from KSBeattie@lbl.gov) Received: from lbl.gov (fuzz.lbl.gov [131.243.2.59]) by portnoy.lbl.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2N1Vg3t019082 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:31:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <405F9372.4050401@lbl.gov> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:31:30 -0800 From: Keith Beattie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040321 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: To use.perl port or not? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:31:43 -0000 Hi all, I recently installed the perl-5.8.2_5 port and ran 'use.perl port' to make that new perl the default system perl. I did several other upgrades at about the same time and since then: kernel cvsup and rebuild to 4.9-RELEASE-p4, and weekly cvsup to update my installed ports. It seemed after those upgrades 'mozilla related' apps because quite unstable: specifically mozilla mail and browser, thunderbird, firefox, epiphany and openoffice all crashing without a core file or any log message that I could find. I tried a pkg_deinstall & portinstall of mozilla but that didn't help. Today I was doing a routine upgrade of epiphany and it failed in configure complaining about a missing perl module. Remembering that I had recently upgraded perl, I did a 'use.perl system' and epiphany now builds fine and the crashing seems to have gone away. Searching the archives for 'use.perl' I found a suggestion that after switching to use.perl port, one should reinstall programs that depend on perl. Not sure how to make such a list, but it seems excessive. So, does it seem reasonable that switching perl could have caused/solved this problem? How 'bleeding edge' is doing a 'use.perl port'? Is it something that indeed requires a large rebuild of one's system? If so, how does one go about finding the list of things which need to be rebuilt? Thanks, ksb