Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery!

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 23 11:22:52 UTC 2013


+--On 23 novembre 2013 06:13:33 -0500 Ajtim <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:
| On Saturday 23 November 2013 11:54:27 Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +--On 22 novembre 2013 12:40:07 -0800 "Ronald F. Guilmette"
|> <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
|> |    1) Change the option in lang/perl5.16:
|> |         make -C /usr/ports/lang/perl5.16 config
|> | 
|> | HUH??  I don't understand this at all.  What exactly is "the option"
|> | that we are changing here?  And what does it matter to anything?
|> 
|> Like it is written in the paragraph before, the default option for perl
|> has changed, *if* you want to switch from non threaded to threaded, you
|> also need to change your perl configuration.
| 
| I have "threaded" option on all the time. Do I need to rebuild than? It
| is confused for me.

Then, you're not changing anything, you don't need to rebuild anything. You
only need to rebuild everything if you're changing that.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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