Perl 5.8.6 upgrade

[Anton Berezin]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:57:06PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> 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).

Another failure mode is of course those packages that link against perl.
These will probably have to be discovered and re-compiled (although in
my case sed -i.bak -e 's|5\.8\.5|5.8.6|' /usr/local/bin/vim was quite
enough to fix vim with perl).  :-)

\Anton.
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