From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 0: 1:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from askas.co.za (unknown [196.7.216.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA99B1584B for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rudi@askas.co.za) Received: from askas.co.za(mirror[196.7.216.244]) (1914 bytes) by askas.co.za via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:26:26 +0200 (SAST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1 built 1998-Mar-22) Message-ID: <372954DA.C303EEEE@askas.co.za> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:59:38 +0200 From: Rudi Opperman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kiril Mitev Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: how to get rid of PERL ? References: <199904291519.QAA00340@idea.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I had a similar problem. perl5.5.2 caused some of my perl mirror jobs to puke so i installed perl5.4.4 by downloading the tarred/zipped distribution and installed it by hand (easily done with help from the questions list). It seemed to fix most problems. I was told that the orginal errors were caused by the unstability of the latest versions of perl on bsd (2.2.8 in my case) - hope this helps - even if it is not what you asked for ;-) bye rudi Kiril Mitev wrote: > > Or, more to the point, I am developing a stong feeling that > the perl installation/packages on my 3.1-RELEASE is rather, erm, > messed up, as in, quite a lot from the 'ports' is looking > for files in the wrong directories (or maybe other bits > install into the wrong directories - i don't know) > > installing Perl stuff from the Perl installer (-MCPAN) > also breaks down more often than not... > > So, I thought my best (and quickest) bet would be to > clean out everything perl-wise, and build myself > a full distribution the way Perl would (hopefully) like it to be... > > So, how the .... do I make sure that NOTHING of the Perl stuff > that 'comes by default' is REALLY cleaned out ? > > Plz CC me on any replies, I dont read -questions To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message