Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:46:19 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD Message-ID: <35FCD7DA.22DEAED5@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <ML-3.3.905706041.4997.patl@asimov>
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patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > Why is perl v4 in the standard FreeBSD release, current and stable > > releases? Why can't it be 5.00404 by default? Many packages require perl 5 > > to work, so why not make 5.00404 the default... > > I see that non of the other replies have addressed the original question. > You can readily dig through the mailing list archives find the gory > details of the previous discussions of this issue; but the condensed > version is: istr the main reason was that nobody had ported it to use BSD make at the time (OpenBSD had it in their tree then but used gmake to build it). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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