Step-by-step to upgrade Perl

[Kent Stewart]

On Monday 12 April 2004 11:30 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:30:37PM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> > 	I'd like to upgrad Perl to 5.8 using ports on FreeBSD 4.7, but
> > how to do that in order to completely overwrite the old version
> > (5.5.3). Which is the correct steps to upgrade Perl?
>
> No -- it's a lot easier than you seem to think.
>
>    i) Install the perl5.8 port:
>
>         # portinstall lang/perl5.8
>
>        - or -
>
>         # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
>         # make install
>
>   ii) Set the new version of perl to be the default. (This also turns
>       off building perl as part of the base system):
>
>         # use.perl port
>
>  iii) Re-install any 3rd party modules, etc that you've installed so
>       the new perl can access them.  There should be a neater way of
>       doing this...
>
>         # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/{site_perl/5.005,5.00503} -type f
> -print0 | \ xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u > /tmp/perl-ports # vi
> perl-ports
>
>           [ Sanity check the results: take out any non-ports (like
>            '?'), ports that are now bundled with perl or that you no
> longer wish to have installed ]
>
>         # portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/perl-ports`
>
> Et voila.  New version of perl installed and ready to go.
>

There is one group that doesn't appear. All of the versions of automake 
use perl and have the version to use as the 1st line. You need to 
portupgrade -f automake
to get things ready for your new version of perl. FWIW, I am using
perl-5.8.2_5

There should be some sort of USE_PERL in their makefiles but isn't 
there.

Kent

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