upgrading perl -ports
Jorn Argelo
jorn at wcborstel.nl
Thu Sep 1 15:11:24 PDT 2005
Parv wrote:
>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
>
>
>
Yes, I stand corrected. Which is why I mentioned that I didn't know for
sure ;-)
Jorn.
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