Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:49:29 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <411A4009.2010700@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <411AB9C4.3020107@broadpark.no> References: <411A3604.8000201@supsi.ch> <411AB9C4.3020107@broadpark.no>
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Thank you all for your answers.
one more questions...
What is the preferred/advised version for buildWorld and co?
Henrik W Lund wrote:
> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list.
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> Can anybody tell me about /etc/make.conf in FreeBSD-5.2.1 ??
>>
>> Yesterday I moved away /etc/make.conf that looked like this:
>> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# cat /etc/make.conf.back
>> # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
>> # Created: Thu Nov 13 18:49:33 2003
>> # Setting to use base perl from ports:
>> PERL_VER=5.6.1
>> PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
>> PERL_ARCH=mach
>> NOPERL=yo
>> NO_PERL=yo
>> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
>>
>> then I went on on upgrading my ports system as described in
>> /usr/ports/UPDATING..
>>
>> # portupgrade -o lang/perl5.8 -f perl-5.6.1_15
>> # portupgrade -f p5-\*
>>
>> and all the rest till
>> # portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2
>>
>> today, I went on to do make buildworld and checked /etc/make.conf
>> and guess what? It is again there:
>> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# cat /etc/make.conf
>> # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
>> # Created: Tue Aug 10 16:35:06 2004
>> # Setting to use base perl from ports:
>> PERL_VER=5.6.1
>> PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
>> PERL_ARCH=mach
>> NOPERL=yo
>> NO_PERL=yo
>> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
>>
>> so.. I just upgraded perl to 5.8, but somehow in /etc/make.conf
>> it says to use version 5.6.1..
>>
>> why?
>>
>> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# which perl
>> /usr/bin/perl
>>
>> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# perl --version
>> This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd
>>
>> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# pkg_info|grep perl
>> p5-DBI-1.41 The perl5 Database Interface. Required for DBD::*
>> modules
>> p5-Test-Harness-2.40 Run perl standard test scripts with statistics
>> p5-Test-Simple-0.47_1 Basic utilities for writing tests in perl
>> p5-Time-HiRes-1.55,1 A perl5 module implementing High resolution time,
>> sleep, an
>> perl-5.6.1_15 Practical Extraction and Report Language
>> perl-5.8.2_5 Practical Extraction and Report Language
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>
>
> This is because perl 5.6.1 is the one used by default. You can switch
> betwenn using the perl that came with the base system (5.6.1) and the
> most recent perl that's in the ports by doing
>
> `use.perl system'
>
> and
>
> `use.perl port'
>
> respectively (the argument to the top one might be "base" instead of
> "system", I'm not sure).
>
> If you do this alot, /etc/make.conf will fill up with sections starting
> with # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #, so I usually clean up every
> now and then, leaving only one copy of them in.
>
> Hopte this helps!
>
> -Henrik W Lund
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