From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 20:20:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from impatience.valueclick.com (impatience.valueclick.com [216.246.96.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26AFA37B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ask@valueclick.com) Received: (qmail 23447 invoked by uid 500); 18 May 2001 03:20:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 May 2001 03:20:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Ask Bjoern Hansen To: Paul Hoffman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 on FreeBSD 4.3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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