how to upgrade Perl

[Peter Risdon]

Perica Veljanovski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> How do I upgrade perl version 5.005_03 to Perl 5.8 on my FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
> from ports?
> 
> Tryed:
> cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> make install
> and nothing happend :P

Nothing at all? Was there no output on the console?

If you did see the normal kind of burbling, but still find ports use the 
original version, you probably haven't done:

#use.perl port

Peter.


> 
> ps. /usr/ports/comms/p5-Device-SerialPort does not run on Perl5.0
> 
> 10x