perl issues after port upgrade

Nelis Lamprecht nelis at 8ball.co.za
Thu Feb 5 22:44:52 PST 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 08:33, george vagner wrote:
> I upgraded perl via ports to 5.8.2 and typed in "use.perl port"
> as it said and now i am getting problems with my scripts such as.
> 
>  Message: Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/
> openwebmail-send.pl
>  Can't locate Text/Iconv.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/
> site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 /usr/
> libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/
> openwebmail) at /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/iconv.pl line 7. 
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/
> shares/iconv.pl line 7. 
>  
> this is where i found the iconv.pm file.
> 
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/mach/Text/Iconv.pm
> 
> there is a directory  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
> but it has no iconv.pm file in it.

You'll find that all the programs you installed that required perl
before you upgraded to 5.8.2 will give you problems. My advice for you
is a re-install of all those programs. Apache if you use it will
probably also need to be re-installed. 

Regards,
-- 
Nelis Lamprecht
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