From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 15:22:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B01916A42B for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:22:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6DB43D53 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:22:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l8so833443nzf for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:22:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OTc2rRJiF6TPGDtaHlvtU60XgUwl4R2k7LWnaA215buKyyAH9W+QhxvCG3P1RTxaUDzZ3bC+obR/qiz+88pM7fqcBkpVRLO3QVKaqufVYacoKiijRWPJOhWMNK6TXycZcZmT/ANNogCjRckDQvOOFpp+9nta9tuWVPQjKNdWLaw= Received: by 10.36.106.10 with SMTP id e10mr809580nzc; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.18.19 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:22:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <62b856460603310722g4cc8f794rc5b26f69cddca8e4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:22:17 +0200 From: "Michael Grant" Sender: michael.grant@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: ports and a new version of perl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:22:19 -0000 I installed perl in /usr/local to have a later version of perl.=20 Certain ports require the new version. How can I set the default version of perl that make uses in /usr/ports? I tried make.conf, that didn't work. I also tried editing /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk but the change goes away when I update ports. What's the right answer? Michael Grant