Perl configuration

[paul beard]

On Nov 22, 2003, at 3:11 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> However, the values in make.conf only have an effect at compile time,
> so if you want all of your perl modules to live under
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/{,site_perl/}5.8.2 then you're going to have to
> reinstall all of the ports that put files into %%SITE_PERL%% as well
> as installing the updated version of perl.
>

Aargh, I had this happen to me on two boxes in the past week so the 
scars are still fresh enough for me to remember it all.

What worked for me [tm] was to invoke portinstall -r perl58 and let it 
fix everything. That worked when a simple "make [re]install" wouldn't.

(the r argument is valuable:

    -r, --recursive          Do with all those depending on the given 
packages
                              as well
)

My advice, worth every penny you pay for it, is to leave the extra 
directories alone (disk space is cheap). The side-effects are too hard 
to predict or rectify, in my experience.

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Paul Beard
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paulbeard [at] mac.com