From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 12:31:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A576716A4D0 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.webtent.net (hermes.webtent.net [192.216.106.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0325D43D4C for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@webtent.com) Received: from columbus.webtent.org (webtent.org [198.79.127.235]) by hermes.webtent.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i4CJVDj07639 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 15:31:13 -0400 From: Robert Fitzpatrick To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain Organization: WebTent Networking, Inc. Message-Id: <1084390343.11922.35.camel@columbus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:32:24 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Perl 5.8 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:31:20 -0000 I remember installing a package that said it required Perl 5.6 in the past, but cannot remember which one. I am using this box mainly for Postfix 2.0.16 and amavisd-new with SpamAssassin 2.63 and ClamAV 0.65. I also have OpenLDAP 2.1.29, Heimdal 0.6, Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and Cyrus-IMAP 2.1.16 that I am testing some things out with. This is all on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I want to install the rrdtool port, but I see it requires Perl 5.8. Does anyone know if those ports listed above would require 5.6? And what should be done to change my Perl from 5.6 to 5.8? Relating to Perl, I have this in my /etc/make.conf now: PERL_VER=5.6.1 PERL_VERSION=5.6.1 PERL_ARCH=mach NOPERL=yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo Should I just update the 5.6.1 to 5.8 and do the Perl 5.8 port install? -- Robert