Perl from ports

[Wesley Shields]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:45:05PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> The perl5.8 ports after update to 
> 
> 	# $FreeBSD: ports/lang/perl5.8/Makefile,v 1.102 2009/03/03 16:21:02 # skv Exp $
> 
> work fine on my latptop and all my old server. 
> 
> But on a fresh install FreeBSD I got this message : 
> 
> [root /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8]# make
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> ===>  Found saved configuration for perl-5.8.9_2
> => perl-.tar.bz2 is not in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/distinfo.
> => Either /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/distinfo is out of date, or
> => perl-.tar.bz2 is spelled incorrectly.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.
> [root /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8]# 
> 
> If I put 
> 
> 	PERL_VER=5.8.9
> 
> under
> 
> 	PERL_VERSION=5.8.9
> 
> it's working.
> 
> The reason is on old install freebsd they are "PERL_VER=5.8.9" in make.conf

I believe this was fixed shortly after the commit which removed
PERL_VER.  Can you update your ports tree and try again?

-- WXS