From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 08:24:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06768 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 08:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA06762 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 08:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA12525; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:24:04 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611091624.KAA12525@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: perl upgrade To: ericw@recom.com (Eric Williams) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:24:04 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3283A09B.3889@recom.com> from Eric Williams at "Nov 8, 96 04:05:31 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Eric Williams said: > how can i upgrade the version of perl w/out doing a whole bsd upgrade? > thanks Perl is one of the easiest programs to compile. Larry and his group have done an incredible job of making it available to all Unices. I usually remake perl, because its not configured the way I want it (setuid perl scripts). Grab the perl distribution, unzip and untar, run ./Configure in the base dir, then make. Piece of cake. Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030