Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 on FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105172015290.22572-100000@impatience.valueclick.com> In-Reply-To: <p05100323b72a42f28e89@[165.227.249.18]>
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Paul Hoffman wrote: > >This port is marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics badly with the Perl5 > >that is in the 'base' system. Sysadmins and users who know how to > >override this may do so, and must accept the risk of doing so. > > That's not very helpful. Is there a known safe way of installing Perl > 5.6 and keeping the two installations parallel? I'm happy to have it > installed as /usr/bin/perl5.6 or something like that. something like: $ cd ~/tmp $ fetch ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz Receiving perl-5.6.1.tar.gz (5983695 bytes): 100% 5983695 bytes transferred in 3.6 seconds (1.60 MBps) $ tar xzf perl-5.6.1.tar.gz $ cd perl-5.6.1 $ ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/home/perl/5.6.1/ $ make -j5 && make test && make install $ ln -s /home/perl/5.6.1/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl5.6 should do it. not tested, so you'll have to fix my typos. :) - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); more than 100M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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