From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 12:18:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C1BE37B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@slb.to) Received: (qmail 16909 invoked by uid 1000); 25 May 2001 19:18:44 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:18:44 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: "RDWest Sr." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updateing perl? Message-ID: <20010525141844.A20861@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <001a01c0e4c0$228db560$23730618@ci83514a> <000801c0e4cc$cec2d430$23730618@ci83514a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000801c0e4cc$cec2d430$23730618@ci83514a>; from bsd-noob@home.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:43:05PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In-Reply-To: ... Don't reply to your own message; send a completely new one. To those with threaded mail clients, it looks like this message is a reply to your first one. This may prevent people from reading this question, since they would assume it was a followup to the first. > quick question... i'm very new to BSD and new to any os other than > win32.. so plz bare with me... i won't hound yall to bad.. :) > > can i d/l the new version of perl for unix/linux and will it build > in FreeBSD? > > does all packages have to be ported to BSD before they can be > installed? Those are two questions. The answer to the second question is "no". You can compile software from source anytime you want, provided the source is available, or you can run Linux binaries under emulation. Be aware, though, that most marginally popular software has a "port" available, which does any necessary manual source "tweaking" for you. As for your first question, Perl is a complicated piece of software, and it is included with the base FreeBSD system. For those reasons, compiling a new version yourself would be ill-advised, unless you really know what you're doing. To be pithy about it, the very fact that you asked the question means that you shouldn't do it. That said, ways to do that have been discussed at length on this list; check the archives if you're curious. HTH, Lucas P.S. All those extra periods and spaces make your messages really hard on the eyes. Please don't do that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message