mod_perl vs perl5.8.5

[Sven Willenberger]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 17:35 -0400, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
> On a cvsuped 4.10-RELEASE server, the current version of mod_perl in
> ports doesn't seem to want to build against the current version of
> perl in ports:
> 
> [root at zorak mod_perl]$ portupgrade mod_perl
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 244 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done]
> --->  Upgrading 'mod_perl-1.29' to 'mod_perl-1.29_1' (www/mod_perl)
> --->  Building '/usr/ports/www/mod_perl'
> ===>  Cleaning for libtool-1.3.5_2
> ===>  Cleaning for perl-5.8.5
> ===>  Cleaning for p5-URI-1.34
> ===>  Cleaning for rc_subr-1.31
> ===>  Cleaning for expat-1.95.8
> ===>  Cleaning for apache-1.3.31_6
> ===>  Cleaning for p5-HTML-Parser-3.36
> ===>  Cleaning for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.03
> ===>  Cleaning for p5-libwww-5.79_1
> ===>  Cleaning for mod_perl-1.29_1
> ===>  Extracting for mod_perl-1.29_1
> >> Checksum OK for mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz.
> ===>   mod_perl-1.29_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.4 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.4 in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8

what does your /etc/make.conf say about the version of perl you are
using? Have you done a portupgrade from 5.8.4 to 5.8.5 without use.perl
port afterward?