From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 12:55:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lila.inti.gov.ar (lila.inti.gov.ar [200.10.161.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCB337B416 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:55:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from nav.inti.gov.ar ([200.10.161.45]) by lila.inti.gov.ar with smtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 16452Z-0006r0-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:45:39 -0300 Received: from iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar ([200.3.113.15]) by NAV.inti.gov.ar (NAVGW 2.5.1.12) with SMTP id M2001111415525512036 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:52:55 -0300 Received: (from fernan@localhost) by iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar (8.11.3/8.11.3) id fAEIl6X24151 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:47:06 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fernan) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:47:06 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: perl-5.6.1 still FORBIDDEN? Message-ID: <20011114154706.E3547@iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-PGP-Key: http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/pubkey.asc 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 [ please CC me since I'm not subscribed to the list] I am running FreeBSD-4.3 (RELENG_4_3) I see that perl-5.6.1 is still marked as FORBIDDEN in the ports. However from browsing the archives of this and other lists I understand that the problem with 5.6.1 is that some modules don't work with this version (mostly due to bad checking on the perl version). I've seen mentioned that perl 5 goes deep into the 'base' system, so it is not advisable to install 5.6.1 over 5.00x. Is this still valid? Is this related to the problems with modules, or is this related to other reasons? Is it safe to have both versions installed together? Perhaps it is safer to have /usr/local/perl56 and use the following at the top of each script: #!/usr/local/perl56/bin/perl ? (would I have to install all modules again in the new location?) Thanks in advance, Fernan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message