lang/perl-5.16: fails to compile because of missing distinfo/use.perl

Garrett Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Wed Jun 26 03:30:38 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Andrej Zverev <az at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello, it's something wrong with ports tree.
> Usually distinfo placed /usr/ports/lang/perl5.16/distinfo, but in your
> case it wrong.
> Same goes for use.perl which must seat in
> /usr/ports/lang/perl5.16/files/use.perl
>
> Please try remove whole tree (rm -rf /usr/ports as example) and
> checkout from git again (but using svn and portsnap would be
> preferable)

You're right -- my clone was broken. Sorry for the false alarm.
Thanks!
-Garrett


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