How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

[Erik Norgaard]

Paul Schmehl wrote:

> When you finish, you need to run use.perl port (read pkg-message), and
> you'll have to rebuild any ports you've already built that use perl
> since you will have changed the default perl installation.

Try run this: perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC' This shows the paths which
perl will look for modules, the old version paths should be included,
mine is:

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/mach
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/BSDPAN
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/mach
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4
.

So it is not necesary to reinstall all perl modules. If you need to
toggle @INC the Perl manual recommends you to 'use lib'.

Cheers, Erik
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