perl5.8 with 4.10 stable?

Warren Pollans warren at meyer-pollans.net
Thu Jul 29 07:05:13 PDT 2004


Thanks, do I also need to deinstall the old version?

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:50:38 +0400 (MSD)
Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Korey Verlsteffen wrote:
> 
> KV> >I'd like to upgrade perl on my recently installed 4.10 box - the current perl
> KV> version is 5.005_03.  Do I download the >source and build/install it - and then
> KV> re-install the perl modules?  Or is there a cvsup/portupgrade way of doing
> KV> >this?  I have cvsup'd (ports-all tag=.) and portupgrade'd (arR) - but I still
> KV> have the old perl.  :-(  Sorry, I'm new >to freebsd.  I have also cvsup'd
> KV> (src-all) and rebuilt the kernel.
> KV>
> KV> >Any suggestions and/or redirection appreciated.  The box appears to work fine -
> KV> I'd just like to have a newer perl
> KV>
> KV>
> KV> Type the following:
> KV>
> KV> cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> KV>
> KV> make install clean
> KV>
> KV> use.perl port
> 
> ... and then
> 
> portupgrade -f 'p5-*'
> 
> since most perl modules don't like new system-wide perl or even note it...
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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