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Subject: Re: upgrading perl -ports
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Please don't top-post.

Zan <zan6669@comcast.net> writes:

> On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, at 01:30 P:M, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Zan <zan6669@comcast.net> writes:
> >
> >> in my /usr/local/bin I can clearly see that there is a newer version
> >> of perl (5.8.0) already there, but when I type 'perl -v' I see that
> >> I'm running off of 5.0. Is there anything else I can do besides trying
> >> the "use.perl port" command? Because that doesn't seem to work, and my
> >> jail did not come with a ports collection.
> >>
> >> I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you!
> >
> > Please show:
> >  uname -m
> >  which -a perl

> uname -m = i386

Oops.  I meant uname -a.  You're running some 4.x, I guess?

> which -a perl =
> /usr/local/bin/perl
> /usr/bin/perl

Okay, explicitly run each of those perl executables to find the
version.  

Something doesn't make sense here, and you may be looking in the wrong
direction...