From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 23 11:20:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7ED9389 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8155F2352 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amavis-proxy-ori.ijs.si (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3dRX9z0XFLzGMl8 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:20:39 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ijs.si; h= message-id:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type :mime-version:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date:date :subject:subject:organization:from:from:received:received :received; s=jakla2; t=1385205637; x=1387797638; bh=ARy2V+Yuyz3Z diiCxPGZK0mbFkCmxrQQYmuDp57jhqQ=; b=kaC2GvaG+8pJBsnUIVLnSgadeoBd E5iAzcz6zXCDXmmjoZu+qnwziwvFFw7UUtEE0huH5ns0a3/xYS6nPtSpjDwjria+ ouWT/7RSRVmO19hbrtfa6NxfGoSbYGPAf+DH+5Fhh/h5p0jzGEOpvRh9qPUbh1F6 AVFsPBFAkakLRRU= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([IPv6:::1]) by amavis-proxy-ori.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:::1]) (amavisd-new, port 10012) with ESMTP id p0TeUnvwEO8U for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:20:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from mildred.ijs.si (mailbox.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::143:1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:20:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from sleepy.ijs.si (sleepy.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80:e001::1:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mildred.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 65D78256 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:20:37 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Martinec Organization: J. Stefan Institute To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery! Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:20:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.2-STABLE; KDE/4.10.5; amd64; ; ) References: <25503.1385152807@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <25503.1385152807@server1.tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201311231220.36687.Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:20:40 -0000 On Friday 22 November 2013 21:40:07 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Now, one last little thing... > > The note in the UPDATING file dated 20131120 gives essentially the same > instructions as the one dated 20131023, *however* it also contains this: > > 1) Change the option in lang/perl5.16: > make -C /usr/ports/lang/perl5.16 config > > HUH?? I don't understand this at all. What exactly is "the option" that > we are changing here? And what does it matter to anything? > > It would be Nice if this were entierly less opaque. $ man ports [...] config Configure OPTIONS for this port using dialog4ports(1). > And what does it matter to anything? Gives you a choice to re-think your existing/chosen port options. For example, a new default is now THREADS, but you may not like it, as it somewhat increases the memory usage and requires to rebuild all perl modules. Mark