From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 00:38:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB46616A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:38:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from CPE000103d44c07-CM000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (CPE000103d44c07-CM000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.193.222.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F5043D5D for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:38:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from 172.16.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id C80712957CF; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:38:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from 172.16.0.200 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej); by 172.16.0.1 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:38:50 -0500 (EST) 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> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:38:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: "Mike Hunter" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-wettoast-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-wettoast-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: mikej@rogers.com cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:38:58 -0000 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.