How To Upgrade to Perl 5.8 on 4.9 System?

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Mar 23 17:41:33 PST 2004


Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I'm using 4.9-RELEASE.  Is is possible to upgrade Perl from the default 
> 5.005 version to 5.8.2?

Yes.

> Are there any steps required beyond installing the port?

Try:

cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
make install
use.perl port

-- 
-Chuck



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