installed perl 5.8. from the ports ??

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:51 pm, Shawn Guillemette wrote:
> I needed to install something better then perl 5.6.1 in order to
> install something from another port. So I did a locate on perl and
> found /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8  So I cd to the dir and make install
> and after it completed with no errors the I go back to the port I was
> attempting to install and I get the same message:
>
>  rt3-3.0.9 This program only support perl 5.6.1 or above.
>
> Unfortunately I dont know what version I has using before. I was
> wondering if there was somthign I needed to do to stop using the
> older version and start using the new one?
>

Read /usr/ports/UPDATING because there is a section on updating perl. 
You also need to update automake* because some of them create a link to 
the current perl as the first line,

If you are running 4.x, the install tells you to run use.perl port and 
that is all you need to do to use the new perl.

Kent

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