From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 3 10: 8:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FA237B88D for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE98182A5; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:07:14 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38E8BFD5.3E69DF2A@vangelderen.org> References: <38E8BFD5.3E69DF2A@vangelderen.org> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:59:05 +0200 To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Nick Hibma From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Cc: Christopher Masto , Chuck Robey , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , FreeBSD-Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, || 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