From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 15 20:25:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-49.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0732E37B401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C5E866E6A; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:25:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:25:30 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Michiel Boland Cc: Steve O'Hara-Smith , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl5 on 2.2.8-STABLE Message-ID: <20010215202530.A28771@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010215214415.10f45303.steveo@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6TrnltStXW4iwmi0" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from boland@carmel.diva.nl on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:24:53AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:24:53AM +0100, Michiel Boland wrote: > > MB> Is there a way to install perl5 on a 2.2.8-STABLE machine using por= ts? The > > MB> ports/lang/perl5 port no longer builds - perl5.005_02.tar.gz appear= s to > > MB> have disappeared everywhere. > >=20 > > I suggest (untried) editing the Makefile to use perl5.005_03.tar.gz > > make makesum and proceed =3D it may work easily or it may fight back :) >=20 > Well that appears to work after fiddling with a couple of the patches. Is > it worth it to get someone to update the port, or is the perl5 port > essentially dead? (In which case it should probably be removed.) It's dead as long as no-one maintains it. If the current maintainer (markm) doesn't want to keep doing it, and you want to take care of it, then the problem is solved :-) Kris --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6jKu6Wry0BWjoQKURArXXAJ992X2xAhXRH4H2dhMwJA3xye6NlACg5FGE QH5uw9Wn4pLyynR3Vkj48bQ= =k8Ew -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message