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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2003 22:04:12 -0700
From:      Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>
To:        Hudson T Clark <dark_archon1@juno.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl 5.8
Message-ID:  <20030511050412.GB41500@webserver.get-linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030510.070233.-891395.1.dark_archon1@juno.com>
References:  <20030510.070233.-891395.1.dark_archon1@juno.com>

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On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 07:02:33AM -0700 or thereabouts, Hudson T Clark seemed to write:
> OK well I downloaded it I did all of the commands it tells me to in
> INSTALL (the default ones at the very top) I did:
> 
> rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
> sh configure  -de
> make                                         <---- got an error here it
> died
> make test                                   <---- tried just for the heck
> of it got another error and it died
> 
> At this point I asked someone how to clean it up so I can try again... I
> typed:
> 
> make clean
> 
> In the same dir, a bunch of stuff was dumped to the screen (I'm guessing
> deleting what make did). Then I finally deleted the directory that I
> unarchived and had been doing this all in. So now am I back where I
> started? Did the commands above result in any files/dirs being put
> anywhere else BUT the perl-5.8.0 dir (its unarhived from he 5.8.0
> download on the freebsd ports page)?

You're safe.
To get it to work, cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 && make install.

HTH,
-- Josh

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