From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 9 10:12:16 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA04097 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 10:12:16 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA04091 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 10:12:03 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA22912; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 19:11:49 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA13290; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 19:11:47 +0200 Message-Id: <199507091711.TAA13290@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Nik Clayton cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl 5.001m kind of broken Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 19:11:43 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I just checked it, and it works fine. What version of FreeBSD do you have? M > If I do > > # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5 > # make > > the response is > > ===> Configuring for perl5.001m > ./Configure -sde -Dprefix=/usr/local -des > Configure: unknown opton - > Configure: unknown option -Dprefix=/usr/local > [... Configure usage message deleted ...] > > and the 'make' halts. > > However, I can then just 'cd work/perl5.001m' and run Configure manually > and it works fine (it even passes all the tests correctly, which no > previous version of Perl 5 has done). > > On a slightly related note, shouldn't the default manpath be > /usr/local/man and then /usr/share/man? That way any updated manual > pages from packages are found first? I tried editing /etc/manpath.config > to put /usr/local/man's MANDATORY_MANPATH before /usr/share/man's, but > it didn't work. In the end I just set the MANPATH variable in the global > .cshrc. > > N > > [CC'd to the Perl 5 maintainer] > > =-[Opinion, n: See the above text for an example]=-=[Kibo #: e]-[RYRYRY]=-= > =-[The Silly Sod Society: To perfect and to swerve]=-[beable]-=[TP U BG]=-= Zymurgy`s First Law of Evolving System Dynamics: > Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan > them is to use a larger can. -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200