From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 3: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moon.harmonic.co.il (moon.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ECEA37B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by moon.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA25547; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:08:16 +0200 To: Scot Elliott Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 in FreeBSD Message-ID: <969876495.39cf240fec86b@webmail.harmonic.co.il> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:08:15 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What kind of problems did you have in the default install? Works great for met, however PERL_THREADED is broken for some time I think. I'd rather not see perl 5.6 soon in stable, too many things depend on it, and it better go to current for couple of _months_ of testing. BTW 5.6.1 will be out soon I guess. Quoting Scot Elliott : > 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 > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message