problem with /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8

Mike sturdee at mikesweb.com
Mon Jul 19 17:29:36 PDT 2004


When upgrading perl, I do:
portupgrade -f p5-\* 
which does the trick for me.

-Mike


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Charlie Root wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:49:45AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>> I am trying to install perl-5.8.4 on a 4.10-STABLE box, but the build
>>> always fails with MIME::Base64.
>>
>> Did you have an older version of perl-5.8 on that system?  You might find
>> it useful to pkg_delete p5-* and the older perl before building 5.8.4.
>
> I have the same problem. It is not solved by following your suggestion.
>
> Michael
>
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