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Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 23:55:32 +1000
From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Perl Version
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On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:51:47AM -0400, Jim Campbell wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD 4.11 Stable.  I installed lang/perl5.8 from my ports 
> tree.  Yet when I do a "perl -V" it reports "Perl 5.0 patchlevel 5 
> subversion 3".  I have another port that needs perl to be at least 5.6.x 
> and it refuses to install.  Since I didn't find anything in the archives 
> about this, what am I doing wrong?

Run "use.perl".

Edwin
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