upgrading perl -ports

Parv parv at pair.com
Thu Sep 1 14:58:52 PDT 2005


in message <4316BC23.9070409 at wcborstel.nl>, wrote Jorn Argelo
thusly...
>
> About your problem, you should really recompile Perl from the
> ports-tree if you want to upgrade your Perl version. And after you
> did that, I always rebooted the machine. I don't know how it will
> function without rebooting the machine, or if it's even possible
> to upgrade Perl properly without a reboot.

There is no reason to reboot just to upgrade perl "properly".
Rebooting does nothing in regard to upgrading perl, rather you just
cause inconvenience to yourself.


  - Parv

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