how to upgrade Perl

[merv]

You will also have to reinstall all the other p5 ports that you may have 
installed prior to this upgrade. So that they all compile for 5.8


On Monday 26 July 2004 12:09, Perica Veljanovski wrote:
> > > How do I upgrade perl version 5.005_03 to Perl 5.8 on my FreeBSD
> > > 4.10-RELEASE from ports?
> > >
> > > Tryed:
> > > cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> > > make install
> > > and nothing happend :P
> >
> > Nothing at all? Was there no output on the console?
> >
> > If you did see the normal kind of burbling, but still find ports use the
> > original version, you probably haven't done:
> >
> > #use.perl port
>
> all done :)
>
> I did the make install in ssh from a windows box, an gues what, the
> windows box crashed during the make install on the fbsd box. And since
> I'm lazy enough not to run script(1) I didn't see the end of make
> which probobly sad what you sugested.
>
> 10x Peter.
>
>
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