From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 14:36:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02020 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.184]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01995 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00265; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:36:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Marc Mazer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1R and perl5.003 In-Reply-To: <199609181905.PAA19942@gold.interlog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Marc Mazer wrote: > I would like to install perl5.003 on my machine running FreeBSD 2.1.0 > but noticed that in the ports collection perl5.003 seems to be for > FreeBSD-current. Will this port, in fact, work under FreeBSD 2.1? Well, the port is geared for -current, but it it doesn't take advantage of any new or changed functions, then it should compile. The best way to know is to try it :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major