From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 1 15:36:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bobo.thehutt.org (pcp709198pcs.alxndr01.va.comcast.net [68.49.240.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D0D37B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.3.13] (helo=nomad.thehutt.org ident=mailnull) by bobo.thehutt.org with esmtp (Exim 4.00) id 16gwZr-0000gh-00; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 18:36:39 -0500 Received: from jerry by nomad.thehutt.org with local (Exim 4.00) id 16gwZM-0001mB-00; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 18:36:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:36:08 -0500 From: Jerry A! To: parv Cc: Frank Sonnemans , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: Perl version in 4.5 Stable Message-ID: <20020301233608.GA6803@nomad.thehutt.org> Reply-To: jerry@thehutt.org References: <003901c1c162$167f6cd0$0101a8c0@scuba> <20020301230007.GA16375@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020301230007.GA16375@moo.holy.cow> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: Broken Toys Unlimited Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:00:07PM -0500, parv wrote: : : please do wrap your lines around 65-70 character or so in future : so as not to give an incentive to ignore your messages. : : in message <003901c1c162$167f6cd0$0101a8c0@scuba>, : wrote Frank Sonnemans thusly... : > : ... : > Assuming it is not 5.6x, will using the v 5.6 port of perl cause : > any significant incompatibilities (when installed as the default : > perl interpreter?) : : if you use cvsup to update ports AND if you make changes to : /usr/ports/bsd.port.mk, just remember to change/protect it so that : correct $PERL, $PERL5, and $PERL_{VER|VERSION|ARCH} variables are : used. setting those variables in /etc/make.conf is not enough. That shouldn't be necessary. Shortly before 4.5 was released, someone "updated" the lang/perl5 port. It now installs a "use.perl" program that you can call as "use.perl port" which will replace the /usr/bin versions and place the appropriate entries in /etc/make.conf. A "use.perl system" returns things back to the default state. Very nice work. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message