From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 15: 0: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA2C153B5 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:59:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17110; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:59:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: juksi@iname.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl version? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jukka Simila wrote: > I compiled gimp today (1.1.3) and ran into this problem: > it warned me about perl version being older than 5.004, and indeed, when I > enter: > perl -v > I received this: > --- *** --- > This is perl, version 4.0 On FreeBSD 2.2.X, Perl4 ships with the system. If you install Perl5, it goes into /usr/local/bin. You may want to move /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl4 and symlink /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message