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From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:05:52PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.9:
> 
> FreeBSD masaka.moolenaar.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #2: Sat Oct 23 15:54:26 CEST 2004     mool@masaka.moolenaar.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MASAKA  i386
> 
> Trying to install the mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port I get an error
> message that perl 5.6.1 or higher should be installed:
> 
> 	Needs perl 5.6.1 or higher, install lang/perl5.8 and try again
> 
> But I do have perl 5.6.1!

Did you use use.perl port with your 5.6.1?

> Removing the check from the Makefile it continues but then later fails
> with something missing...
> 
> OK, let's install Perl 5.8 then.  But that fails as well, halfway doing
> "make install".  Now /usr/local/bin/perl is no longer functioning!!!
> Aaaaargggh!  (sorry, this is very frustrating)

Any error messages?

=Anton.
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