Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:21:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Blaz Zupan <blaz@si.FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Ranner <mranner@inode.at> Cc: perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fresh perl install and amavisd-new Message-ID: <20040819181836.I86733@titanic.medinet.si> In-Reply-To: <200408191109.10272.mranner@inode.at> References: <200408181512.59208.mranner@inode.at> <41235F82.5040907@amis.net> <200408191109.10272.mranner@inode.at>
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> Installation of Perl distribution is finished. Please note, that > since Perl is also in the base system, this distribution will not > be used by default. > > # > # this ist not true on FreeBSD 5 > # It *is* true. This distribution will not be used by default. If there is nothing in the base system, well you don't have a perl. > > If you want this version of Perl to be used by default, please type > > use.perl port So, you follow this instruction and this is all that is needed. > # Users new to FreeBSD may not read all the pkg-message output, simply trying > # perl -v which results in the expected output and they will go further to > # build amavisd-new which result in: Well, if users will not read the instructions, why do you think they would read the instructions in the amavisd-new pkg-message output? > but perl -v works as expected. It does, but perl is *not* installed. > So my idea: Give some hint in amavisd-new which may be the wrong place or fix > up the perl ports to give a correct pkg-message for FreeBSD whithout perl in > the base distro. There are dozens of ports that depend on perl 5.8 (or perl 5.6). Should every single one of them contain warnings in addition to the warnings being displayed by perl itself? If you try to install amavisd-new, it warns you that you need perl 5.8.X. So, you need to properly install it. If the instructions for perl installation are not good enough, then *they* should be fixed, not the instructions for every single port that depends on perl. Just IMHO.
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