spamassassin build failure

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> writes:

> As I think I only went from perl 5.6 to 5.8, I'm surprised that so much would
> be out of date. Good to know though. Do the other scripting languages have
> this kind of support? Python?

Even among scripting languages, perl is unique in its pathological
lack of backward compatibility.  The FreeBSD maintainers do a nice job
of limiting the pain, but you *do* have to follow their directions.