From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 16 14:16:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984B137B404 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp066.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.50] helo=moo.holy.cow) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16mMTY-0007iX-00; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:16:33 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7619850B8B; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:18:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:18:09 -0500 From: parv To: "F. Xavier Noria" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl & system upgrade Message-ID: <20020316221809.GA81869@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: "F. Xavier Noria" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20020316155835.6f094167.fxn@isoco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020316155835.6f094167.fxn@isoco.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <20020316155835.6f094167.fxn@isoco.com>, wrote F. Xavier Noria thusly... > > I am downloading the sources right now to upgrade this 4.4 box to > 4.5. Perl 5.6.1 is installed and before I build the new sustem I > would like to know whether it would be a good idea to execute > "use.perl system" to make /usr/bin/perl the original system perl > or it does not matter. it really shouldn't matter as long perl is somehow in PATH either via /usr/local/bin/perl or symlinked from /usr/bin/perl. i don't remember if i had done so yet, but i won't really fret... unless something really screwy happens, of course. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message