OpenWebMail won't make

[Bill Schmitt (SW)]

scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:

>Hi Bill,
>
>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
>
>|I've been trying to install openwebmail. I've tried portupgrade and make
>|and both seem to have the same issue. I get an error message that perl
>|5.6.1 or higher is needed and suggesting that I install 5.8. I've done
>|that (several times) but I still get the error message. Has anyone come
>|across this and have a solution? I'm running FBSD 4.9.
>
>	What the command bellow shows to you:
>
>	# perl -v
>
>	Following is a script to upgrade perl:
>
>
>    i) Install the perl5.8 port:
>
>         # portinstall lang/perl5.8
>
>        - or -
>
>         # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
>         # make install
>
>   ii) Set the new version of perl to be the default. (This also turns
>       off building perl as part of the base system):
>
>         # use.perl port
>
>  iii) Re-install any 3rd party modules, etc that you've installed so
>       the new perl can access them.  There should be a neater way of
>       doing this...
>
>         # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/{site_perl/5.005,5.00503} -type f \
> -print0 | \ xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u  /tmp/perl-ports
>
>        # vi  perl-ports
>
>           [ Sanity check the results: take out any non-ports (like
>            '?'), ports that are now bundled with perl or that you no
> longer wish to have installed ]
>
>         # portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/perl-ports`
>
>  iv) All of the versions of automake use perl and have the version to use
>as the 1st line. You need to:
>
>         portupgrade -f automake
>
>        to get things ready for your new version of perl.
>
>- Marcelo Souza
>
>
>
>  
>
I thank you very much Marcelo. I had forgotten about the use.perl thing 
(I'm rebuilding a crashed system).