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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:29:17 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        rihad <rihad@mail.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using Perl 5.8.8
Message-ID:  <4B588EED.6080602@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4B587EBE.8040403@mail.ru>
References:  <4B587EBE.8040403@mail.ru>

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rihad wrote:
> Hi, one of the programs I'm using (freeradius' rlm_perl) segfaults with=
=20
> both Perl 5.8.9 and 5.10, only working with 5.8.8. How can I cleanly=20
> install Perl 5.8.8 on a fresh system, without mangling the port=20
> Makefile? I've tried putting both USE_PERL=3D5.8.8 and PERL_VERSION=3D5=
=2E8.8=20
> in /etc/make.conf, but "make fetch" still tries to fetch version 5.8.9.=


portdowngrade is what you'ld have to use.  However, perl-5.8.8 has known
security vulnerabilities:

    http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802.htm=
l

Would definitely be better to get your program to work with a current
version of perl.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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