"net/sendemail" fails after updating Perl

[Marco Beishuizen]

On Sat, 21 May 2011, the wise Jerry wrote:

> The port: "/net/sendemail" builds fine after the update to Perl;
> however, it no longer runs. It terminates with this error message:
>
> Subroutine IO::Socket::INET6::sockaddr_in6 redefined at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.0/Exporter.pm line 67.
> at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0/IO/Socket/INET6.pm line 21
>
> This is a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 machine. I followed the directions
> in the UPDATING file when upgrading Perl and then even did a reboot to
> insure everything would start up correctly. The only errors I received
> when updating Perl were regarding "graphics/graphviz" which was
> previously reported and "www/web-gtk2" for which a fix is not yet
> ready.

I'm getting this same error message with spamd:

...
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd restart
Stopping spamd.
Waiting for PIDS: 44108.
Starting spamd.
Subroutine IO::Socket::INET6::sockaddr_in6 redefined at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.0/Exporter.pm line 67.
  at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0/IO/Socket/INET6.pm line 21
...

Marco

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