/etc/make.conf

[Steve Bertrand]

> Hi all.
>
> Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list.
> Thank you!
>
>
> Can anybody tell me about /etc/make.conf in FreeBSD-5.2.1 ??
>
> Yesterday I moved away /etc/make.conf that looked like this:
> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# cat /etc/make.conf.back
> # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
> # Created: Thu Nov 13 18:49:33 2003
> # Setting to use base perl from ports:
> PERL_VER=5.6.1
> PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
> PERL_ARCH=mach
> NOPERL=yo
> NO_PERL=yo
> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
>

I must admit, that I don't quite follow what you are getting at in
this post, but something blatantly stuck it's finger out at me...

> NOPERL=yo
> NO_PERL=yo
> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo

Is yo kind of like maybe? ;o)

Perhaps this could be related to the problem you are having. The
values should either be yes, or no.

Steve

> then I went on on upgrading my ports system as described in
> /usr/ports/UPDATING..
>
> # portupgrade -o lang/perl5.8 -f perl-5.6.1_15
> # portupgrade -f p5-\*
>
> and all the rest till
> # portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2
>
> today, I went on to do make buildworld and checked /etc/make.conf
> and guess what? It is again there:
> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# cat /etc/make.conf
> # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
> # Created: Tue Aug 10 16:35:06 2004
> # Setting to use base perl from ports:
> PERL_VER=5.6.1
> PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
> PERL_ARCH=mach
> NOPERL=yo
> NO_PERL=yo
> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
>
> so.. I just upgraded perl to 5.8, but somehow in /etc/make.conf
> it says to use version 5.6.1..
>
> why?
>
> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# which perl
> /usr/bin/perl
>
> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# perl --version
> This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd
>
> pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# pkg_info|grep perl
> p5-DBI-1.41         The perl5 Database Interface.  Required for DBD::*
> modules
> p5-Test-Harness-2.40 Run perl standard test scripts with statistics
> p5-Test-Simple-0.47_1 Basic utilities for writing tests in perl
> p5-Time-HiRes-1.55,1 A perl5 module implementing High resolution time,
> sleep, an
> perl-5.6.1_15       Practical Extraction and Report Language
> perl-5.8.2_5        Practical Extraction and Report Language
>
>
> Thank you.
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