Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:28:41 +0400 From: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" <mazen.comp@alzogbi.com> To: Jason Wilson <jwilson@nobilis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using the newer version of Perl! Message-ID: <406C2719.6010807@alzogbi.com> In-Reply-To: <76CBA4753FF32448894B0E13B59C96B852B295@yoda.us.nobilis.com> References: <76CBA4753FF32448894B0E13B59C96B852B295@yoda.us.nobilis.com>
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Jason, Thank you for the tip. I am learning something new about FreeBSD everyday. Cheers, Jason Wilson wrote: > The answer you seek has been in front of you the entire time. Since you > missed the package message that blew by when you installed perl, which > is > a common ailment some of us suffer from (you mean there's something > important to read mixed in with all that configuring, compiling, > linking, > and installing nonsense that fills my scroll buffer!), some ingenious > port > maintainer left the advice for you to read at your leisure in > /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/pkg-message. > > Give it a good read. > > Regards, > Jason Wilson > Director of Technology > Nobilis Software > > Babbling Blatherscythe! Mazen S. Alzogbi <mailto:mazen.comp@alzogbi.com> > > had this to say: > > >>Hi, >> >>Perl version 5.005_03 was installed with FreeBSD 4.9 by default. I >>installed Perl 5.8.x_x from ports (via FTP). Executing perl -v on the >>console still showing the older version! How can I start using the >>newer >>version? Can't FreeBSD start using the newer version too? >> >>Cheers, >> >>Mazen S. Alzogbi >>http://alzogbi.com/mazen >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To >>unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Mazen S. Alzogbi http://alzogbi.com/mazen -- Read my Inspirational Weblog on http://alzogbi.com/mazen/iblog/
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