perl 5.8.3 in ports

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 22:10, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:50:32PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 20:09, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > > What are others doing who need the updated perl?  I'm trying to decide
> > > to wait a bit longer for the port or just go ahead and install 5.8.3
> > > from source.
> >
> > How about updating the port and submitting a patch? Btw., you should
> > probably ask the port-maintainer tobez at FreeBSD.org directly as well.
>
> Putting in another PR as well as ports/61444 and ports/62209 probably
> won't help much.

Thanks for browsing the PRs - those look good. Vivek, you should probably 
apply one of those patches to lang/perl5.8 instead of compiling from source - 
that way you'll safe from any grief with files that a hand compile might 
install into non-(ports)-standard locations.

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