From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 18:32:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D352F106566C for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27CA8FC12 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.42]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E769A7151B for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:32:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 30640 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2012 18:32:02 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 2445, pid: 24259, t: 0.1699s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 Received: from unknown (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Aug 2012 18:32:01 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 5523433C24; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:32:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Jack Stone References: <503BF131.4030803@sage-american.com> <44ehmp3k1a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <503E3071.7000905@sage-american.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:32:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <503E3071.7000905@sage-american.com> (Jack Stone's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:08:33 -0500") Message-ID: <44vcg11rdq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading perl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:32:04 -0000 Jack Stone writes: > Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 > installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in > increments to get well past EOL. You're somewhat on your own, then; I can't test any of my ideas before suggesting them to you. > Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the > perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12 > first to see if that works, then: > # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean I would be surprised if the perl-5.12 port will build for you; I think you'll get the same error. If not, then yes, it should work. > What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl > program requires a minimum 5.12. Well, it's also possible that there's a local problem on that machine. You indicated that you used portupgrade for similar updates on similarly-aged machines, but I'll guess that they were only roughly similar. I'll guess that you built your own INDEX file; if not, you probably should (and the associated database for portupgrade). Compare the infrastructure in ports/Mk (and maybe /usr/share/mk) with the similar machines that succeeded, and look at the Makefile in perl5.12 to make sure it sets options properly. Good luck.