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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:49:08 -0400
To: John Larson <johnwlarson3rd@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: perl 5.8.5
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On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:45 PM, John Larson wrote:
> I installed perl 5.8.5 when I did initial install of
> freebsd 4.11 on my machine. when I do perl -v I get
> perl 5.006. when I switch to the perl 5.8.5 it cannot
> find DBI in the PM when I switch back it can.

Once you run "use.perl port" to switch to perl-5.8.5, you will need  
to rebuild all your perl ports (such as DBI) against the new version  
of perl.  Check /usr/ports/UPDATING for suggestions on how to do this...

-- 
-Chuck