From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 2:47:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from liam.london.sparza.com (liam.london.sparza.com [212.135.72.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438F437B42C for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hagop.london.sparza.com ([212.135.72.28]) by liam.london.sparza.com with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #3) id 13dUrf-0002DW-00; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:47:59 +0100 Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by hagop.london.sparza.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07157; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:47:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scot@london.sparza.com) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:47:45 +0100 (BST) From: Scot Elliott To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <14796.48644.440687.452340@yertle.kciLink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My @INC path on the standard stable Perl install is : /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .. which doesn't seem right to me. We've installed perl 5.6 as we had too many problems with the default 5.00503 install and haven't noticed any problems apart from a massive startup time (7 seconds!) on perl scripts. Anyone else seen this behaviour? Scot On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "CM" == Chip Marshall writes: > > CM> Is the version of perl in the FreeBSD source tree going to be upgraded > CM> to Perl 5.6.0 anytime soon? just curious. > > > I certainly hope not in 4-STABLE. Perl 5.6 still has problems with > some things, and requires some patches; why those aren't put together > into a 5.6.1 release, I don't know. But stick with Perl 5.005 in > 4-STABLE. > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. > Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 > GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message