Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:41:13 +0000 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLVED: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x Message-ID: <3FCB6F29.3000902@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <44y8tw5whc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <3FC3D263.70009@thingy.apana.org.au> <3FCAA386.8070001@thingy.apana.org.au> <44y8tw5whc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 12/01/03 16:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> writes: > > >>Gaim requires perl 5.8 or higher just to be installed - its 'l33t++ >>custom configurator thingy requires it. The 5.005 that comes >>with FreeBSD 4.8 is not sufficient. >> >> >That's not true. I just did it (on -STABLE, and with the latest >ports, but with the stock perl 5.005_03. > That's weird, 'cos it's a FAQ on the Gaim site that it wants >=5.8, and the Perl wouldn't work with the stock 5.005_03 but did with 5.8.1 from packages ... so the port patches Gaim's Perl code? >>- cvsupit your ports >> >> >cvsupit has been gone for some time, and hadn't really worked for a >while before that. [which is why it's gone] > I'm sure Liz (my wife) says that's what she ran for it. Must have been something else, then. - d.
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