Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:36:08 -0500 From: Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: Frank Sonnemans <fs.mail@wanadoo.be>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl version in 4.5 Stable Message-ID: <20020301233608.GA6803@nomad.thehutt.org> In-Reply-To: <20020301230007.GA16375@moo.holy.cow> References: <003901c1c162$167f6cd0$0101a8c0@scuba> <20020301230007.GA16375@moo.holy.cow>
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:00:07PM -0500, parv wrote:
:
: please do wrap your lines around 65-70 character or so in future
: so as not to give an incentive to ignore your messages.
:
: in message <003901c1c162$167f6cd0$0101a8c0@scuba>,
: wrote Frank Sonnemans thusly...
: >
: ...
: > Assuming it is not 5.6x, will using the v 5.6 port of perl cause
: > any significant incompatibilities (when installed as the default
: > perl interpreter?)
:
: if you use cvsup to update ports AND if you make changes to
: /usr/ports/bsd.port.mk, just remember to change/protect it so that
: correct $PERL, $PERL5, and $PERL_{VER|VERSION|ARCH} variables are
: used. setting those variables in /etc/make.conf is not enough.
That shouldn't be necessary. Shortly before 4.5 was released, someone
"updated" the lang/perl5 port. It now installs a "use.perl" program
that you can call as "use.perl port" which will replace the /usr/bin
versions and place the appropriate entries in /etc/make.conf. A
"use.perl system" returns things back to the default state.
Very nice work.
--Jerry
Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
...It's much more important than that!
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