From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 22 19:16:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16755 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camel7.mindspring.com (camel7.mindspring.com [207.69.200.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16748 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adric@adric.com) Received: from adric.com (user-38lc937.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.36.103]) by camel7.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03080 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35B69CF1.33EB43B5@adric.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:16:17 -0400 From: Adric Organization: adric.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl5 as default for current References: <3.0.5.32.19980722165030.00853ae0@mail.ainet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph M. Scott wrote: > If I recall correctly this was brought up before ( at least one that I caught anyway ). I believe the bottom line was that perl5 needed to build ok with bmake. I also thought that someone had stepped up and made the needed changes. That was the last that I had heard. > If I'm totally off base let me know, also there may be more to the story than just my short version. I've no idea what the official line is, but perl5 built fine for me (from ports on current) and installed fine too. It took we awhile to rename and relink things so that I will always get perl5 though.. I did that because of some wacky library mismatching on libnet something ... Anyway I guess I'll re-cloak now, but put in my vote for an ln in /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin/perl , linked to whatever the latest version is (That's about how I did it, 'cept I copied perl to perl4 too) -adric (I might've used gmake, can't remember..) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message