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From: Iain Templeton <iaint@CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au>
To: Jason DeFillippo <jason@spewww.com>
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Subject: Re: Major PERL problem
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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.