problem with perl when installing port dvdrip

[Nick Tonkin]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:29:48 +0100, mikael backman <mback99 at glocalnet.net> 
wrote:

> Hi.
> I don't understand what this mean:
>
> %cd /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdrip
> %make
> ===>  dvdrip-0.50.13_1 is marked as broken: You need at least perl 
> 5.6.0. Do
> not use FreeBSD 4.x' system perl, it's outdated. Install lang/perl5 and 
> issue
> 'use.perl port'
>
> I installed perl5 ,but " issue 'use.perl port' " ?

You are supposed to install perl5 from the FreeBSD ports. Then you "issue" 
the command 'use.perl port' at your command prompt.

use.perl is a script that switches the perl in use by your system between 
the perl 5.005 that's standard with FreeBSD 4.x and perl 5.6 that is the 
perl5 port. Mostly it just changes the symlinks at /usr/bin/perl etc.

Note that perl 5.6.1 is quite outdated and if you want full perl support 
(i.e. all the latest whizz-bang perl modules to Just Work) you should 
consider installing perl 5.8 from source.

- nick

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