Perl ports problem

[Roger Merritt]

At 09:39 PM 6/3/03, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 04:25, Roger Merritt wrote:
> > I was trying to install a Content Management System (MkDoc) which requires
> > several perl ports. Many of the ports installed with no problem, but now
> > I've run into several that all seem to have the same header file missing:
>
>Sounds like either (a) you haven't done "use.perl port" (the Unicode
>stuff in particular almost certainly needs at least perl 5.6), or (b)
>your perl installation is confused.  I had the latter happen during a
>mass portupgrade because I had both 5.6 and 5.8 installed; I ended up
>nuking both, reinstalling 5.8, "use.perl port", and "portupgrade -f
>p5-\*" to make the existing ports sync up before I could install new
>Perl ports.

Aha! Thank you. But I'm a little surprised there wasn't some sort of error 
message, "Requires perl 5.6 or better", or something like that. Somebody 
commented on this list recently that perl 5.8.0 had a problem which will be 
corrected in 5.8.1, but I see the perl5 port is 5.6.1, so I'll try that.

Luckily, I don't use perl often, and I don't really need the Unicode 
capabilities of this Content Management System, but it looks like the one 
that otherwise best meets my (modest) needs. I really don't want to get 
into Zope.


-- 
Roger