From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 14:13:21 2003 Return-Path: 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 10B3B37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B1943FB1 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5CLDIOg002383; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:13:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EE8ECEE.4080503@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:13:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Lieurance References: <2049.192.168.1.150.1055452567.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> In-Reply-To: <2049.192.168.1.150.1055452567.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7: Perl Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:13:21 -0000 Jason Lieurance wrote: > Hello, > > I have Freebsd 4.7 and I have perl 5.00503 and I ran 'perl -MCPAN -e > shell' Then at the cpan prompt I ran install bundle or something and it > started loading a bunch of things but finally it had an error and couldn't > finish. But now I have my original perl in /usr/bin and another perl in > /usr/local/bin. I don't think the 5.8 finished because of the error but > its there. How do I clear up the perl mess? Should I upgrade to 5.8? I > need some perl modules installed for some programs but I get this error > when I go to install the modules 'don't know how to make > /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach/CORE/opnames.h. Stop'. That's why I'm > trying to upgrade in the first place. Thanks. I recommend using the ports to install perl modules. Not knowing exactly what you did, it's difficult to tell you how to clean it up. I would suggest backing up /usr/local/bin and then trying to manually rm any perl directories. If you delete something you shouldn't you can restore from backup. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com