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Subject: Re: find port install options
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Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Warren Block wrote:
> 
>>>> I suppose its safest to assume that I need to reinstall perl, but 
>>>> how easy is it to do that? I think it was installed by default.
>>
>> Easy, as long as you've updated ports with cvsup or portsnap.  As root:
> 
> [corrected by adding make deinstall]
> 
> cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> make deinstall
> make -DWITH_THREADS install
> make clean
......

yes I understood that part :)
but I have a bunch of other things dependent on perl so I guess I would need to 
rebuild all of those as well.

And  I still need to find out what options were used in building perl.
-- 
Robin Becker