From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 2 07:28:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA13592 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 07:28:20 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA13586 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 07:28:19 -0700 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA06343; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 10:28:17 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id KAA01015; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 10:28:16 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 10:28:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Jake Hamby cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sgmlfmt doesn't work under Perl5.001 ! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Sep 1995, Jake Hamby wrote: > When I tried to run sgmlfmt(1) tonight, after upgrading from the Perl that > came with FreeBSD (4.036?) to 5.001m, it gives me these errors and then > quits: > [Bunch of errors deleted] > Is this a bug in sgmlfmt or just Perl5.001 not being backwards compatible > with 4.036? At any rate, when I installed perl it made a link from > /usr/local/bin/perl (where I installed it) to /usr/bin/perl (where the > old FreeBSD version was). My fault for allowing it to, but now what am > I supposed to do? Tomorrow I'll have a look at either fixing sgmlfmt to > work with Perl5 or just rebuilding Perl4.036 from source... Any > suggestions? Yeah, perl 4.036 and perl 5.001 aren't compatible, so it'd have been surprising if you _had_ been able to get that done. First thing you do, go back and re-enable your 4.036 installation, 'cause you're going to have to run perl (the 4.036 version) and perl5.001 side by side for a while here. If you fix it for sgmlfmt, then some other script will need it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com > Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------