Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 05:10:00 -0400 From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl version in -STABLE Message-ID: <20030516091000.GA13658@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <1053039904.76608.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> References: <xzpy918mk3y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com> <20030515170742.GP53138@dansat.data-plan.com> <200305151602.20378.wes@softweyr.com> <1053039904.76608.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
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in message <1053039904.76608.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>, wrote Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH thusly... > > On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 19:02, Wes Peters wrote: > > Has anyone run a recent -STABLE with Perl 5.6.1 in place of the > > system Perl? > > I've been doing that (and more recently 5.8.0) via "use.perl port" > on -STABLE for a while now; no problems. I was using perl 5.6 w/ FreeBSD 4.[56] devoid of system perl; currently i use perl 5.8 on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. I don't use the use.perl program as i much prefer to do its work myself. See also... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/41513 ...not that that would affect what you, Wes, are trying to do; just something to keep in mind if/when you do "make test" in perl5.8 port. - parv --
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