From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 8:15:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F87737B718 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:15:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f33FDTR03263; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:13:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <008101c0bc50$f1314f00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "Tim Ayers" References: <000c01c0bc0c$3f2395a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 / 5.6 / CPAN Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:15:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've had no problems with Perl 5.6.0 and I have not run across a > module that doesn't install in 5.6 because of bad version checks. If > your fears are true, then we are in a bunch of trouble when we all > upgrade to FreeBSD 4.3, which I believe is going to contain Perl > 5.6. Uhh, no. I think perl 5.6 is in -CURRENT, but it's definitely not in -STABLE. > >>>>> "H" == "Hervey Wilson" writes: > H> - Has anyone successfully installed the ports collection version > H> of Perl (5.6) ? > > I don't think you can install Perl 5.6 from the ports. My ports tree > is recently cvsup'ed (like 5 minutes ago) and trying to make > /usr/ports/lang/perl5 says > ===> perl-5.005 is forbidden: perl is in system. Perhaps you should cvsup again. markm (the perl port manintainer) built a perl-5.6.0 port which lives in /usr/ports/lang/perl5 -- it was added within the last two weeks. If you attempt to install, it says: ===> perl is forbidden: perl is in system. If you hack out that check, you can easily install perl-5.6.0. You should even be able to run them in parallel. The former is in /usr/bin, the latter is in /usr/local/bin. Since perl's "libraries" are all prefixed by the version number, even installing modules shouldn't trash existing modules - provided that you take the proper precautions, such as using the right perl to invoke CPAN. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message