Using Perl 5.8.8

[Matthew Seaman]

rihad wrote:
> Hi, one of the programs I'm using (freeradius' rlm_perl) segfaults with 
> both Perl 5.8.9 and 5.10, only working with 5.8.8. How can I cleanly 
> install Perl 5.8.8 on a fresh system, without mangling the port 
> Makefile? I've tried putting both USE_PERL=5.8.8 and PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 
> in /etc/make.conf, but "make fetch" still tries to fetch version 5.8.9.

portdowngrade is what you'ld have to use.  However, perl-5.8.8 has known
security vulnerabilities:

    http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802.html

Would definitely be better to get your program to work with a current
version of perl.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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