From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 00:32:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA03176 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (root@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA02965 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neuron (ppp2 [194.95.214.132]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA00490; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:37:55 +0200 Message-ID: <32426355.27CD@degnet.baynet.de> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:26:45 +0000 From: Darius Moos Reply-To: moos@degnet.baynet.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: 2.1R and perl5.003 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've compiled the sources of perl5.003 under FreeBSD-2.1.5 without any errors. Works great. Darius Moos. Doug White wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Marc Mazer wrote: > > > I would like to install perl5.003 on my machine running FreeBSD 2.1.0 > > but noticed that in the ports collection perl5.003 seems to be for > > FreeBSD-current. Will this port, in fact, work under FreeBSD 2.1? > > Well, the port is geared for -current, but it it doesn't take advantage of > any new or changed functions, then it should compile. > > The best way to know is to try it :-) > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -- email: moos@degnet.baynet.de