p5-Gtk-0.7009 requires Perl 5.6 with FreeBSD 4.9

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Jan 27 06:45:44 PST 2004


Troy <troy at twisted.net> writes:

> I've tried to upgrade this perl library, and it's marked as IGNORE,
> being that I'm running stable, should I install lang/perl5 to run Perl
> 5.6? 

According to the IGNORE message in the port, yes.


>       Is there any point where stable will use Perl 5.6 or later?

Not in the base system, no.
5.x has no perl at all in the base system.


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