From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 06:28:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD42816A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:28:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-172-174.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.172.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AE943D46 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:28:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] ([192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i9P6cJVk051537; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200410242301.34360.kstewart@owt.com> References: <200410242301.34360.kstewart@owt.com> X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:26:10 -0700 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Kent Stewart Subject: Re: Perl installation problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:28:04 -0000 I should probably clarify that (a) we're not interested in upgrading FreeBSD just now and (b) we don't want to build Perl statically (as this causes the perl binary to become enormous). So, unless the current Port (a) works under FreeBSD 4.7 and (b) has a way to do a dynamic build, we're not interested... -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series