Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:59:05 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> Cc: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Message-ID: <v0422081ab50e7e12c8f7@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <38E8BFD5.3E69DF2A@vangelderen.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031050131.9381-100000@localhost> <38E8BFD5.3E69DF2A@vangelderen.org>
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At 11:59 AM -0400 2000/4/3, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > PERL is not just used by the FreeBSD system, it's also used by many > applications ran on top of FreeBSD. Those applications are more likely > to require an up-to-date version of PERL. We for one need the (overly > late) 64-bit support in PERL. MMMkay. Try this: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl && make install This seems to me to be a much better solution, while we wait for Perl 5.6.x to stablize enough for it to actually be considered for inclusion in the FreeBSD base. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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