Updating Perl..

[Matthew Seaman]

Leslie Jensen wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> When one updates perl, one should rebuild all ports dependend on perl 
> according to the UPDATING file.
> 
> I'm just wondering, isn't the script "perl-after-upgrade" supposed to do 
> the work needed, so that one can save the time of upgrading the ports?

It depends on the upgrade.  For 5.8.8 -> 5.8.9 then perl-after-upgrade
works fine: this is because there is binary compatibility so that .so
modules compiled for 5.8.8 will load just fine into 5.8.9. The work of
perl-after-upgrade is simply to move files from
/usr/local/lib/perl/site_perl/5.8.8 to .../5.8.9

For the upgrade from 5.8.[89] to 5.10.0, there is no binary compatibility
so all perl modules that install loadable binaries will have to be
recompiled.  Rather than trying to produce a long list of what modules
are pure perl and what aren't the advice is simply to reinstall everything.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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