Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:36:54 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Denis <piloyder@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot build perl on FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002071231220.73294@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <19311.3072.653804.20511@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <325305251002070724rb0e30dre8ef5db300b313e4@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002070957160.72829@wonkity.com> <325305251002070920r1f0a96dbk110bfb1f33fe706@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002071108450.73086@wonkity.com> <19311.3072.653804.20511@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Robert Huff wrote: > > Warren Block writes: > >> > Not yet. I'm trying to do this - a lot of ports depend on perl, and I >> > get stuck with it. >> > No, there are no any extra settings in /etc/make.conf. >> >> You may be running into the situation where something Perl needs can't >> run because of mixed libraries. >> >> For the 7-8 major version upgrade, it's usually easier and faster to >> save your pkg_info output, backup /usr/local/etc, and pkg_delete >> everything. Then update the ports tree and start installing ports from >> scratch. >> >> There may be a way to automate that, like feeding the saved pkg_info >> output to portupgrade. I haven't done it often enough to investigate. > > pkg_sort, which is part of portupgrade, is a useful tool. That's pretty cool: pkg_info | cut -f 1 -d' ' | pkg_sort You could just start installing ports at the bottom and work upwards. The only thing that makes me wonder is that list shows wine above xorg-server on my system. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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