Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:36:56 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: A K <kkapp@rambler.ru> Cc: Daren Desjardins <desjardins@canada.com> Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.6 upgrade Message-ID: <20050204173656.GB8366@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20050204135706.GC52914@heechee.tobez.org> References: <4200F3B3.7050706@canada.com> <813911377.1107434232.147437664.80111@mcgi2.rambler.ru> <20050203124845.GD15084@heechee.tobez.org> <1004303803.1107525198.147315880.81488@mcgi2.rambler.ru> <20050204135706.GC52914@heechee.tobez.org>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:57:06PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:53:18PM +0300, A K wrote:
> > * Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> [Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:48:45 +0100]:
> > > > > How necessary is it to rebuild all perl ports?
> > > > You can copy `5.8.5' dirs under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl to
> > > > `5.8.6' (or add 5.8.5 to PERL5LIB) as a desperate measure but that is
> > > > not supported and will probably break some modules.
> > > Actually, this should work just fine, if at the same time the
> > > corresponding /var/db/pkg/ entries are modified accordingly, and all
> > > relevant scripts in LOCALBASE/bin and X11BASE/bin have their shebangs
> > > modified.
> >
> > And user is warned that XS modules can break :)
>
> Of course, anything can break, but I would worry more about things with
> their own little config files with the old paths in them. The script at
> least tries to not touch things installed by older binary incompatible
> perls (the $Config::Config{api_XXXX} part in the code).
Another failure mode is of course those packages that link against perl.
These will probably have to be discovered and re-compiled (although in
my case sed -i.bak -e 's|5\.8\.5|5.8.6|' /usr/local/bin/vim was quite
enough to fix vim with perl). :-)
\Anton.
--
The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. --
Jarkko Hietaniemi
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