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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:38:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        "Mike Hunter" <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1
Message-ID:  <2501.172.16.0.200.1102466330.squirrel@172.16.0.200>
In-Reply-To: <20041207233101.GA29595@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
References:  <20041207222347.GA23656@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <60451.207.219.213.163.1102458724.squirrel@207.219.213.163> <20041207233101.GA29595@ack.Berkeley.EDU>

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Mike Hunter said:

> On Dec 07, "Mike Jakubik" wrote:
>
>> Mike Hunter said:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm new to amd64 as of this nice new dual opteron box I've just
>> > received...I may be seeing a lot of you guys in the coming weeks :)
>>
>> Any reason why you installed 5.2.1 (Its an old pre-release version)? If
>> this is a fresh box, then i highly recommend you install 5.3 instead.
>> Perl
>> 5.8.5 is packaged with 5.3 too.
>
> Actually I did 5.2.1 because that was the install media I had handy :)
> I'm building a RELENG_5 world/kernel as we speak...I'll be back if it
> doesn't work out :)

Well, don't make a habbit of installing old releases. I would still
recommend you install 5.3 from scratch instead.




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