From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 22:59:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D4937B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 22:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p6m7g8.com (pcp02835904pcs.hyatsv01.md.comcast.net [68.54.254.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A858843FAF for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 22:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@p6m7g8.com) Received: from p6m7g8.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by p6m7g8.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h496xDUA005187 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 01:59:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from philip@p6m7g8.com) Received: (from philip@localhost) by p6m7g8.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.6/Submit) id h496xD8x005186 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 May 2003 01:59:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" Organization: eJournalPress To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 01:59:13 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305090159.13611.philip@p6m7g8.com> Subject: bleedperl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 05:59:13 -0000 install /usr/ports/net/rsync rsync -acvz --delete --force rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/ perl-current ./Configure --Dprefix=/usr/local Dusedevel -Doptimize=-g -Dprefix=$DIR_INSTALL/perl -des make make test make install Then edit /etc/make.conf replace 5.6.1 with 5.9.0 Then edit /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk replace 5.6.1 with 5.9.0 cd /usr/local/bin ln -fs perl5.9.0 perl ln -fs perldoc5.9.0 perldoc ln -fs pod2man5.9.0 pod2man ln -fs perl5 perl cd /usr/bin ln -fs /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl ln -fs /usr/bin/perl5 /usr/local/bin/perl5 I still have issues with things trying to install 5.6.1 and not use 5.9.0 Also, because a few paths are different /usr/ports/database/p5-DBI/Makefile must be edited so that it doesn't install DBI again and again and again. all this is on a -CURRENT machine Any thoughts on /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk ? I think Antoin answered me on this a while ago and agreed, but nothing ever happened with it. He also disagreed with making 5.8 the default. Didn't say why. Anyone want to chime in ? Thanks again -- END ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci Consultant E-Mail: philip@p6m7g8.com URL : http://p6m7g8.net/Resume/resume.shtml Phone : 301.474.9598 eJournalPress DBA / Software Engineer / System Administrator E-Mail: pgollucci@ejournalpress.com URL : http://www.ejournalpress.com Phone : 301.530.6375 $Id: .signature,v 1.4 2003/05/02 23:46:37 philip Exp $