Perl 5.8.6 upgrade

[Anton Berezin]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:53:18PM +0300, A K wrote:
> * Anton Berezin <tobez at FreeBSD.org> [Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:48:45 +0100]:
> > > > 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.
> > Actually, this should work just fine, if at the same time the
> > corresponding /var/db/pkg/ entries are modified accordingly, and all
> > relevant scripts in LOCALBASE/bin and X11BASE/bin have their shebangs
> > modified.
> 
> And user is warned that XS modules can break :) 

Of course, anything can break, but I would worry more about things with
their own little config files with the old paths in them.  The script at
least tries to not touch things installed by older binary incompatible
perls (the $Config::Config{api_XXXX} part in the code).

Cheers,
\Anton.
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