Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:16:16 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Christopher Nehren" <apeiron@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Perl voodoo in ports/UPDATING Message-ID: <opr8x0heqf9aq2h7@mezz> In-Reply-To: <20040602010715.GA96875@prophecy.dyndns.org> References: <20040602010715.GA96875@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:07:15 -0400, Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> wrote: > In regard to the new Perl version, ports/UPDATING has of course been > changed with some instructions on how to proceed. It includes some real > voodoo which really shows the beauty of Unix. But wouldn't 'portupgrade > -rf perl\*5.8.4' be much simpler? And if the user has a threaded Perl > installed, the command listed in UPDATING won't work. Before the perl was added in UPDATING, I did the 'portupgrade -f p5-\*' and it seems work fine. No problem to run GNOME, portlint, tinderbox, perl gtk2 and etc so far. Maybe, there is some apps that need to be rebuild that I don't have them installed. Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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