From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 2:10:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C905637B423 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 02:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@pan.realtime.co.uk) Received: from pan.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.207]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 150gHC-0005kk-01; Fri, 18 May 2001 10:10:26 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 150gH2-0000GN-00; Fri, 18 May 2001 10:10:16 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Paul Hoffman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 on FreeBSD 4.3 References: Date: 18 May 2001 10:10:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86u22jt43r.fsf@pan.realtime.co.uk> Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) 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 Paul Hoffman writes: > Greetings again. I was amazed not to see anything in the archives > about this. FreeBSD 4.3 comes with Perl 5.005 installed. I need to run > Perl 5.6 for some of the programs I'm bringing over. In > /usr/ports/lang/perl5, it says: > > > >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. The way I've approached this is to install perl 5.6.1 from source. Once this is done, ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 vi /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and change the version number of PERL to 5.6.1. This is so that ports will build for the correct version of perl. Lastly, in my /etc/make.conf, I have NOPERL = true so that I don't overwrite my perl version when I make world/ -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message