Perl - what is the default?

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 18/04/2017 à 15:59, Jim Trigg a écrit :
> According to UPDATING as of 20161103, "The default Perl version has
> been switched to Perl 5.24." However, when I follow the instructions
> there to switch, I get the following message (after running portsnap
> fetch update manually even though it runs automatically every night):
> "      This is *NOT* the DEFAULT perl version
>
> It will *NOT* install /usr/local/bin/perl
>
> It will *ONLY* install /usr/local/bin/perl5.24.1
>
> The default Perl version currently is 5.20."
>
> Yes, I added "DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= perl=5.24" to /etc/make.conf, and
> grep confirms that that is the only incidence of perl in the file. 

But did you add:

DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= perl5=5.24

like the message says you have to ?

If you did, it is possible that you have a really really old system and
you still have a /usr/local/etc/perl5_version file, you should remove it.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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