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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Perl5 configure problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Oct 1998 19:14:29 MST."
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:47:29 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :> /usr/libexec/elf/ar: /usr/lib/aout/libc.so.3.1: File format not recognized
> :               ^^^
> :
> :Hm, if you're running ELF you're running CURRENT, and CURRENT alreadyhas
> :perl5.  I'd say the port's deprecated and to use the system builtin. :)
> :
> :Doug White                               
> :Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> :http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org
> 
>     Well, yes and no.  It seems rather weird for perl to be part
>     of the system dist, but that alone isn't a big deal.
> 
>     My worry is that the system version perl5 is not going to be
>     kept as up to date as the port version of perl5.  For example,
>     the current system perl5 appears to be 5.004 while the port
>     perl5 is 5.005.

peter@spinner[11:46am]~src/sys_elf/kern-180> /usr/bin/perl5 -v

This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for i386-freebsd
[..]

Cheers,
-Peter



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