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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:55:58 -0400
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Jens Haeusser <jens@zoology.ubc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing Perl
Message-ID:  <20020912205558.A38788@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <B9A64B4E.4D9F%jens@zoology.ubc.ca>; from jens@zoology.ubc.ca on Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:46:54PM -0700
References:  <bulk.49670.20020911105527@hub.freebsd.org> <B9A64B4E.4D9F%jens@zoology.ubc.ca>

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Apparently, On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:46:54PM -0700,
	Jens Haeusser said words to the effect of;

> Yesterday I download the latest ISO from Jake's page
> (http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64/sparc64-20020624.iso.bz2),
> installed it on a Ultra 5 and 10, cvsuped -current and built and installed
> the latest world and kernel (the 9 hours it takes to do this sure make it a
> more daunting proposition than the 1 hour it takes my P-III boxes). When I
> search for perl, I find
> 
> /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/bin/perl5
> /usr/bin/perl5.6.1
> /usr/bin/suidperl,
> 
> but running perl gets me "perl: Perl is not installed, try 'pkg_add -r
> perl'"
> 
> Following the earlier discussions about pkg_add, I tried to manually find
> the perl.tgz package on ftp.freebsd.org, but didn't find one. Is there a
> prebuilt package of perl for sparc64 anywhere, or if is there anything I
> need to add in my /etc/make.conf to build perl with the rest of world?
> 
> Failing that, how can I add perl to a -current sparc64 box? Should I just
> download the latest perl stable source code and bash through a manual
> install?

Install the port, perl has been removed from the base system in -current.
I suppose that the last set of packages were built before perl was removed,
so there's no perl package.

Jake

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