From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 12 17:45:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A859937B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071C443E6E for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:45:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8D0tw8a040028; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:55:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8D0twKr040027; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:55:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:55:58 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder To: Jens Haeusser Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Perl Message-ID: <20020912205558.A38788@locore.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jens@zoology.ubc.ca on Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:46:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message