From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 9 07:55:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA23814 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 07:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com (dn800e0-ext.fingerhut.com [204.221.45.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA23809 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 07:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com (root@localhost) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19090; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:57:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from seag.fingerhut.com (GF007E0.SEAG.fingerhut.com [151.210.140.7]) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19086; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:57:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gf006e0.seag.fingerhut.com by seag.fingerhut.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA18395; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:55:42 -0500 Received: by gf006e0.seag.fingerhut.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA18339; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:55:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:55:39 -0500 Message-Id: <9704091455.AA18339@gf006e0.seag.fingerhut.com> From: Bruce Albrecht To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: make world In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.68) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey writes: > You know, there are several things installed by a make world that I > *really* wish I could condition out via a make veriable: > > perl : I want to maintain my version at 5.003, not 4.036 > groff : I want groff install to stop overwriting the > /usr/share/groff_font/devlp/download file, so all > those neat fonts I bought from WC stay installed. > tcl : I want my version at 8.0a3, not the _old_ 7.5 It seems to me that after Perl 5.004 is released (probably within the next 3 weeks), it should be made the standard Perl for FreeBSD-current. Perl 4.036 isn't supported by the perl porters, and Perl 5 is way cooler and much more powerful.