From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 09:19:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1838B16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E57A43FA3 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003120117184501500pr978e>; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:18:45 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 6E6EA73; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:18:45 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3FC3D263.70009@thingy.apana.org.au> <3FCAA386.8070001@thingy.apana.org.au> <44y8tw5whc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3FCB6F29.3000902@thingy.apana.org.au> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Dec 2003 12:18:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3FCB6F29.3000902@thingy.apana.org.au> Message-ID: <44oeussbgq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: SOLVED: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:19:47 -0000 David Gerard writes: > On 12/01/03 16:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >David Gerard 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? No, looking closer I see that with perl versions less than 5.008, it just configures without perl. Perl isn't necessary to gaim at all. You may not be able to run homemade perl scripts that way, but it doesn't sound like you were doing that anyway. > >>- 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. Or your ports tree is somewhat old; it's been gone for three months or so, and broken for at least three before that.