[HEADSUP] Default Perl changed to 5.24.

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Sun Nov 6 12:40:08 UTC 2016


On 11/05/16 08:12, Piotr Szafarczyk wrote:

> It looks like the same problem I encountered with 5.20 under 10.3 (just
> one box). Links are not created during port building (with other than
> perl too). With perl, two links are missing under /usr/local/bin.
> Creating them manually allows for a successful building of a port that
> depends on perl.

In my experience, the suggested command from UPDATING (i.e. "portupgrade 
-f `pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.20`") will *NOT* create the symlinks.
This is even explicitly stated during build:

> ##################################################
>
>       This is *NOT* the DEFAULT perl version
>
> It will *NOT* install /usr/local/bin/perl
>
> It will *ONLY* install /usr/local/bin/perl5.24.1
>
> The default Perl version currently is 5.20.
>
> If you want to use this version as the default,
> stop the build now, add this line to your
> /etc/make.conf, and then restart the build.
>
> DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=perl5=5.24
>
> ##################################################

In contrast to what is stated, this will happen regardless of the 
presence of any "DEFAULT_VERSION+=perl..." in /etc/make.conf.

A subsequent "portupgrade -f perl5.24" will create them, though.

  bye
	av.


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