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Date:      Sun, 7 Feb 2010 13:52:48 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Denis <piloyder@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot build perl on FreeBSD 8.0
Message-ID:  <19311.3072.653804.20511@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002071108450.73086@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block writes:

>  > Not yet. I'm trying to do this - a lot of ports depend on perl, and I
>  > get stuck with it.
>  > No, there are no any extra settings in /etc/make.conf.
>  
>  You may be running into the situation where something Perl needs can't 
>  run because of mixed libraries.
>  
>  For the 7-8 major version upgrade, it's usually easier and faster to 
>  save your pkg_info output, backup /usr/local/etc, and pkg_delete 
>  everything.  Then update the ports tree and start installing ports from 
>  scratch.
>  
>  There may be a way to automate that, like feeding the saved pkg_info 
>  output to portupgrade.  I haven't done it often enough to investigate.

	pkg_sort, which is part of portupgrade, is a useful tool.



						Robert Huff




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