Upgrade Perl to 5.8.7

Rob MacGregor freebsd.macgregor at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Aug 29 16:38:12 GMT 2005


On Monday, August 29, 2005 5:14 PM, Gawie Marais (Home) <> unleashed the
infinite monkeys and produced:

> Hi
> 
> We are trying to install a package on freeBSD that requires Perl 5.8.7
> 
> Is there any way to install Perl 5.8.7 through the ports as the latest
> version I can install is Perl 5.8.5
> 
> If that is the latest version available through the ports, then can someone
> point me in the right direction to get version 5.8.7 installed ??
> 
> * I have perl-5.8.7.tbz download from the net, but I can't figure out how to
> install it.

You have a (very) out of date ports tree.  5.8.7 was added to the tree over 2
months ago.

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 Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards!



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