From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 15 16:24:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from carmel.diva.nl (carmel.diva.nl [195.86.140.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFE237B65D for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (boland@localhost) by carmel.diva.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1G0Ord27522; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 01:24:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 01:24:53 +0100 (CET) From: Michiel Boland To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl5 on 2.2.8-STABLE In-Reply-To: <20010215214415.10f45303.steveo@eircom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > MB> Is there a way to install perl5 on a 2.2.8-STABLE machine using ports? The > MB> ports/lang/perl5 port no longer builds - perl5.005_02.tar.gz appears to > MB> have disappeared everywhere. > > I suggest (untried) editing the Makefile to use perl5.005_03.tar.gz > make makesum and proceed = it may work easily or it may fight back :) Well that appears to work after fiddling with a couple of the patches. Is it worth it to get someone to update the port, or is the perl5 port essentially dead? (In which case it should probably be removed.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message