From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 14 11:00:24 2011 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 CF975106566B for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f172.google.com (mail-iy0-f172.google.com [209.85.210.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C478FC13 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iye7 with SMTP id 7so11150982iye.17 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:00:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.54.104 with SMTP id p40mr5729121ibg.39.1313319623848; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.15.70 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:00:23 -0400 Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: linux-perl ? 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: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:00:24 -0000 Hi, I've been searching list archives regarding an old thread that talks about perl dbd oracle on fbsd: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-database/2006-October/000465.html My problem is not exactly the same but I need to proxy a specific proprietary perl library that uses xs and was built for linux. I agree with the conclusion of the thread, and I doubt there is a way that fbsd perl would be able to work with this lib directly. So, I was thinking of installing this "linux-perl" on compat and just proxy the lib methods via a daemon (even simple http web service) so I can use the lib through fbsd perl by mean of lwp, for example. This "linux-perl" is mentioned in the thread several times but I don't seem to find information about this anywhere else in the archive, and perl doesn't seem to be in the f10 compats either. I've STFW and I can't seem to find any other obvious reference to this linux-perl stuff. So what is this linux-perl they are talking about in this thread? Does anybody know how I can build/install a perl 5.10 or above that can run in the f10 compat layer? TIA! -- Alejandro Imass