From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 10 17:39:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF8637B417; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:39:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from isi.edu (ras34.isi.edu [128.9.176.134]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fBB1dJN19002; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:39:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C1563C7.8010007@isi.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:39:19 -0800 From: Lars Eggert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011203 X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Garrett Wollman , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > I don't mind that. Perhaps fixing the perl port so that perl 5.6.1 can be > installed on 4.x systems as a port would be the best approach to take. Are there any issues that I should be aware of? We're running 5.6.1 happily on all our 4.4 boxes (we need some CPAN stuff that requires 5.6 for our daily work). The only thing to keep in mind is to install the perl port before any other perl packages, patch bsd.port.mk to set the environment correctly, and optionally move the old perl binaries out of the way. Seems to work like a charm. Lars -- Lars Eggert Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message