Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:55:39 -0500 From: Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make world Message-ID: <9704091455.AA18339@gf006e0.seag.fingerhut.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970407165836.15555A-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970407165836.15555A-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu>
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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.
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