From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 1:11:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B730237B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.online.ie (mail.online.ie [213.159.130.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AA843E31 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vdm@vdm.cc) Received: from vdm.cc (unknown [194.125.156.227]); by mail.online.ie with ESMTP id A3A9C19020; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:11:37 +0100 (IST) Message-ID: <3D2D3DC4.5030703@vdm.cc> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:11:48 +0100 From: Vincent D Murphy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mod_perl-1.27 with perl 5.6.1 References: <3D2CC9A9.6020503@vdm.cc> <20020711075237.GA41528@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Seaman wrote: >> use.system port > > I take it you meant to type: > > use.perl port yes, that's just a typo. i typed this stuff in to an email because i haven't found a way to copy/paste from the terminal without a mouse yet. > If you've run the 'use.perl port' command successfully, then you > should see symbolic links in /usr/bin like so: > > happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -la /usr/bin/perl* > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 25 May 10:18 /usr/bin/perl@ -> /usr/local/bin/perl > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 10224 4 May 09:08 /usr/bin/perl5* > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 10224 4 May 09:08 /usr/bin/perl5.00503* > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 25 May 10:18 /usr/bin/perl5.6.1@ -> /usr/local/bin/perl > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31723 18 Sep 2001 /usr/bin/perlbug* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26305 18 Sep 2001 /usr/bin/perlcc* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16807 18 Sep 2001 /usr/bin/perldoc* my output is exactly what you have here. > and /usr/bin/perl -v should return: > > This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd again, this checks out. > In this case, perl5.6.1 should ignore the perl modules in /usr/libdata > in favour of /usr/local/lib/perl5. Personally I find that the > perl5.6.1 port works perfectly smoothly for compiling mod_perl or > other perl-ish ports like rrdtool. evidently, something has gone wrong with where the mod_perl port chooses to 'load' perl from. i shall be pleased to provide more diagnostics if that helps anyone put their finger on what's going on. nonetheless, thanks for your input. -vincent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message