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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Marc Mazer <mmazer@interlog.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.1R and perl5.003
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960919143551.225C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199609181905.PAA19942@gold.interlog.com>

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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Marc Mazer wrote:

> I would like to install perl5.003 on my machine running FreeBSD 2.1.0
> but noticed that in the ports collection perl5.003 seems to be for 
> FreeBSD-current. Will this port, in fact, work under FreeBSD 2.1?

Well, the port is geared for -current, but it it doesn't take advantage of
any new or changed functions, then it should compile. 

The best way to know is to try it :-)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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