From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 7 19:36:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155CA1065670 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:36:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE7B8FC16 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o17JasgD073360; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:36:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o17JasLP073357; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:36:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:36:54 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Robert Huff In-Reply-To: <19311.3072.653804.20511@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Message-ID: References: <325305251002070724rb0e30dre8ef5db300b313e4@mail.gmail.com> <325305251002070920r1f0a96dbk110bfb1f33fe706@mail.gmail.com> <19311.3072.653804.20511@jerusalem.litteratus.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:36:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: Denis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot build perl on FreeBSD 8.0 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: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:36:56 -0000 On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Robert Huff wrote: > > 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. That's pretty cool: pkg_info | cut -f 1 -d' ' | pkg_sort You could just start installing ports at the bottom and work upwards. The only thing that makes me wonder is that list shows wine above xorg-server on my system. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA