Perl 5.8.6 upgrade
A K
kkapp at rambler.ru
Thu Feb 3 04:37:20 PST 2005
* Daren Desjardins <desjardins at canada.com> [Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:37:23
-0500]:
> Yesterday a perl update was released moving it to 5.8.6. According to
> the UPDATING file all perl related ports will need to be rebuilt. We
> have a number of desktop machines and a quick check showed that this
> would result in having to rebuild a minimum of 88 ports.
>
> How necessary is it to rebuild all perl ports?
You can copy `5.8.5' dirs under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl to
`5.8.6' (or add 5.8.5 to PERL5LIB) as a desperate measure but that is
not supported and will probably break some modules.
--
A K.
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