Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:37:12 +0300 From: A K <kkapp@rambler.ru> To: Daren Desjardins <desjardins@canada.com> Cc: tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.6 upgrade Message-ID: <813911377.1107434232.147437664.80111@mcgi2.rambler.ru> In-Reply-To: <4200F3B3.7050706@canada.com> References: <4200F3B3.7050706@canada.com>
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* Daren Desjardins <desjardins@canada.com> [Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:37:23 -0500]: > Yesterday a perl update was released moving it to 5.8.6. According to > the UPDATING file all perl related ports will need to be rebuilt. We > have a number of desktop machines and a quick check showed that this > would result in having to rebuild a minimum of 88 ports. > > How necessary is it to rebuild all perl ports? You can copy `5.8.5' dirs under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl to `5.8.6' (or add 5.8.5 to PERL5LIB) as a desperate measure but that is not supported and will probably break some modules. -- A K.
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