From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 16:25:07 2003 Return-Path: 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 8DF0F16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F1643F85 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:25:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hAN0P6ZB027256; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com [12.231.115.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id hAN0P5xO023343; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:25:06 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) In-Reply-To: <20031122111149.GA9948@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20031122094626.GB20469@ns2.wananchi.com> <20031122111149.GA9948@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <7AD99CCC-1D4B-11D8-B52A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: paul beard Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:25:02 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Perl configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:25:07 -0000 On Nov 22, 2003, at 3:11 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > However, the values in make.conf only have an effect at compile time, > so if you want all of your perl modules to live under > /usr/local/lib/perl5/{,site_perl/}5.8.2 then you're going to have to > reinstall all of the ports that put files into %%SITE_PERL%% as well > as installing the updated version of perl. > Aargh, I had this happen to me on two boxes in the past week so the scars are still fresh enough for me to remember it all. What worked for me [tm] was to invoke portinstall -r perl58 and let it fix everything. That worked when a simple "make [re]install" wouldn't. (the r argument is valuable: -r, --recursive Do with all those depending on the given packages as well ) My advice, worth every penny you pay for it, is to leave the extra directories alone (disk space is cheap). The side-effects are too hard to predict or rectify, in my experience. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com