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Date:      Wed, 04 Jun 2003 06:56:26 +0700
From:      Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perl ports problem
Message-ID:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030604063950.00a199a0@127.0.0.1>
In-Reply-To: <1054651191.82789.3.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030603151634.00a30240@127.0.0.1> <5.2.0.9.0.20030603151634.00a30240@127.0.0.1>

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At 09:39 PM 6/3/03, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 04:25, Roger Merritt wrote:
> > I was trying to install a Content Management System (MkDoc) which requires
> > several perl ports. Many of the ports installed with no problem, but now
> > I've run into several that all seem to have the same header file missing:
>
>Sounds like either (a) you haven't done "use.perl port" (the Unicode
>stuff in particular almost certainly needs at least perl 5.6), or (b)
>your perl installation is confused.  I had the latter happen during a
>mass portupgrade because I had both 5.6 and 5.8 installed; I ended up
>nuking both, reinstalling 5.8, "use.perl port", and "portupgrade -f
>p5-\*" to make the existing ports sync up before I could install new
>Perl ports.

Aha! Thank you. But I'm a little surprised there wasn't some sort of error 
message, "Requires perl 5.6 or better", or something like that. Somebody 
commented on this list recently that perl 5.8.0 had a problem which will be 
corrected in 5.8.1, but I see the perl5 port is 5.6.1, so I'll try that.

Luckily, I don't use perl often, and I don't really need the Unicode 
capabilities of this Content Management System, but it looks like the one 
that otherwise best meets my (modest) needs. I really don't want to get 
into Zope.


-- 
Roger



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