From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 20:24:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9071065675 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:24:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9278FC15 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q1MKOrjx072131 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:24:53 GMT (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q1MKOrjx072131 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q1MKOrjx072131; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none Message-ID: <4F454F0E.9000403@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:24:46 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaime Kikpole References: <4F451A7F.6070200@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig247545FBAC6DC1739A83453F" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:24:59 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig247545FBAC6DC1739A83453F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 22/02/2012 18:48, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > Good to know. What version comes with FreeBSD if you don't install a > port of Perl? Is there some way to just "yank" the installed port and > revert to the default installed version? Umm.... there isn't perl bundled with the system now. That was removed many years ago. You're expected to install perl from ports if you want it on your system. The default version that the ports would install as a dependency (assuming you had done nothing to select a different one) or that you would get by installing from packages is perl-5.12.4 at the moment. To upgrade to a different version, you need to do something like this: # portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 perl-5.8.9_7 # portmaster -R -r perl-5.14.2_1 You have to rebuild / reinstall all perl modules and everything that embeds perl or that uses perl at run-time when going up such a jump in versions -- the simple moving things around trick using perl-after-upgrade is not sufficient here. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig247545FBAC6DC1739A83453F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9FTxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwBKACgj7VJSB6h5C6If2WRX5KJBoXO VgoAnjMOvWxZfIgKrK7v104N+dh+nlEq =XraP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig247545FBAC6DC1739A83453F--