From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 12:37: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tellurian.net (gate.tellurian.net [216.182.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92E837B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 12:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walt@betan.com) Received: from walt99 (unverified [216.182.56.86]) by tellurian.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 15:35:21 -0400 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010525153238.00b7c900@pop3.palace.net> X-Sender: walterbetanc@pop3.palace.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:34:14 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Betancourt Subject: Re: updateing perl? In-Reply-To: <20010525141844.A20861@billygoat.slb.to> References: <000801c0e4cc$cec2d430$23730618@ci83514a> <001a01c0e4c0$228db560$23730618@ci83514a> <000801c0e4cc$cec2d430$23730618@ci83514a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Was going to ask the same question about compiling perl because I cant find a port for perl5.6.1 and I need the latest version. Walt At 02:18 PM 5/25/01 -0500, you wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message