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From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
Subject: Re: ports/29055: p5-News-Newsrc-1.08 uses perl 5.6.0
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The following reply was made to PR ports/29055; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To: "Andrew J.Caines" <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/29055: p5-News-Newsrc-1.08 uses perl 5.6.0
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:57:36 +0200

 On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:29:30PM -0400, Andrew J.Caines wrote:
 
 > I just updated to p5-News-Newsrc-1.08 via ports from the previous
 > version.  After some odd problems with another program, I tracked the
 > source of the problem as being the first line in Newsrc.pm, which is
 
 > use 5.6.0;
 
 > Now in and of itself this is fairly reasonable, since one has to keep
 > up with software if one is going to change things. My problem is that
 > the port buids with FreeBSD's built-in perl (5.005_03) without error
 > or warning and installs as
 > 
 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/News/Newsrc.pm
 
 That's funny.  I skimmed through the source and was not able to find any
 5.6.0-specificities.  I asked the module author, and am awaiting a
 response from him.  Meanwhile, does the port work for you using
 5.005_03, provided you removed the offending `use' statement?
 
 Cheers,
 \Anton.
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