perl-after-upgrade

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Thu Jul 7 20:14:33 GMT 2005


On Wednesday 06 July 2005 20:10, Bob Hall wrote:
> I don't know squat about perl. I recently ran portupgrade, which
> upgraded perl. Goose stopped working, because the location for Curses.pm
> was no longer in @INC. I tried to run perl-after-upgrade, but I couldn't
> get it to run. I've got a book that said to use
> 	# perl perl-after-upgrade
> or
> 	# ./perl-after-upgrade
> I also tried just
> 	# perl-after-upgrade
> No joy. Just for the heck of it, I tried
> 	* sh perl-after-upgrade
> and dang if it didn't run. It didn't look to me like an sh script, but
> what do I know? It wasn't supposed to change anything without the -f
> option, but goose ran afterward, so it obviously changed things. I
> looked for Curses.pm, and it moved to a directory listed in @INC.
>
> Anybody have any advice? Comments? How was I supposed to get
> perl-after-upgrade to run?

I used to be a bit sceptical about portmanager, but for the sake of a few 
hours of unattended extra building, you can simply ignore this kind of thing. 


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