Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:29:02 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <iaint@CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au> To: Jason DeFillippo <jason@spewww.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major PERL problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604082448.25960A-100000@CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v03102805afba1896027d@[207.211.110.30]>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason DeFillippo wrote: > use <package name>; > > This is using the straight off the FreeBSD CD PERL install. Anybody have > any clue as to why this is happening???? I need to use the GD library and I > can't with this happening. > It could be that you are using perl v4 (try perl -v), /usr/bin/perl is perl 4 normally, and you will have to install perl5 to be able to use um... 'use'. The perl5 port/package in lang/perl5 I think would solve your problem. If you have already installed perl 5, it is by default installed as /usr/local/bin/perl, but /usr/bin/perl is (normally for me) in the path before it, so perl 4 gets called. Iain.
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