How To Upgrade to Perl 5.8 on 4.9 System?

[Nelis Lamprecht]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 03:41, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 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

Be warned. After you have upgraded perl you will be required to
re-install any programs/modules that depend on it eg. Apache
You will receive a location error pointing to your previous perl version
if you don't.

Regards,
-- 
Nelis Lamprecht
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