From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 21 23:04:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA10978 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 23:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moss.verinet.com (root@moss.verinet.com [204.144.246.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA10971 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 23:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bamboo.verinet.com (bamboo.verinet.com [204.144.246.3]) by moss.verinet.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA09961 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:03:55 -0600 Received: from pragma (port30.verinet.com [204.144.246.79]) by bamboo.verinet.com (8.8.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id AAA13787 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:03:59 -0600 Message-ID: <33ACC087.7CD6@verinet.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:04:55 -0600 From: Allen Campbell Reply-To: allenc@verinet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Perl5 installation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am building my first (of many I hope) FreeBSD server. I installed the Perl5 package (Perl v5.003) after installing the FreeBSD v2.2.2 distribution. I assumed that the Perl5 package installation would replace the Perl4 binary in /usr/bin. It did not, and this leads me to the following questions; Should a symlink be put in place of the Perl4 binary in /usr/bin? Are there perl4 resources that are installed with the base distribution that should be removed? That fact that the Perl5 package did not overwrite the perl4 binary implies that perl4 should not be tampered with. I am familiar enough with Perl to know that Perl5 is backwardly compatible, but this is not perfect. Are there perl4 dependent scripts present on the system that would cause me to want to preserve perl4? Thanks for helping a neophyte FreeBSD hack.