From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 30 9:56:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7784D37B491 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.168.205] (cerberus [192.168.168.205]) by cfcl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA79410 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:54:39 -0800 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Subject: Updating perl to use the current db Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It has been suggested that a problem I am having with Perl's dbm-style tied hashes is related to the old version of Berkeley DB on my machine. So, I pulled in the latest version of DB and installed it. Sadly, Perl still seems to be using the old one. So, I looked to see how to remedy this and got rather perplexed. Here are the details: * I am running FreeBSD 4.1, in a fairly vanilla distribution. * perl -v says "This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd" * The latest version of Perl listed on www.freebsd.org is perl-5.00502! I _could_ go to /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl and try to do a make, but I'm more than a little afraid that I will break the Perl I have. Suggestions? -r -- -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm email: rdm@cfcl.com phone: +1 650-873-7841 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message