From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 20:23:32 2002 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 6BE8E37B488 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E336D43EA9 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org ([24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021121042313.MGEN1052.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@be-well.ilk.org> for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 04:23:13 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAL4NEMB033318 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:23:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAL4NDrX033315; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:23:13 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl version in -STABLE build References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 Nov 2002 23:23:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <441y5fft5a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Von Essen writes: > I am curious about something. > > When you cvsup to -STABLE and do a make world, the version of perl > that is built is 5.00503. The problem is that more and more perl mods > require 5.6 or higher. Even some stuff in ports which depends on perl > requires 5.6 or higher. According to > http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html the stable release of perl is > 5.8.0. > > So whats going on? Shouldn't -STABLE build Perl 5.8 now? No. Some system scripts won't work with that. Because of this lack of backwards compatibility in the perl world, perl will be removed completely from the base system in the 5.x branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message