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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What version of Perl and ncurses will be in 2.1? Date: 10 Oct 1995 17:52:19 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 38 Message-ID: <45ebsj$7ri@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <4514di$ci5@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us> <JKH.95Oct9041127@time.cdrom.com> <45bgjv$evq@mordred.gatech.edu> <DG79I0.GMG@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) Bcc: se In article <DG79I0.GMG@ritz.mordor.com>, bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) writes: |> It's not surprising if there aren't any perl programmers working in the |> FreeBSD project; last I heard, they'd sworn that 4.036 was the last version |> of perl ever, and were never gonna upgrade --- which isn't all that |> unexpected if, say, they never use perl for anything and don't know anything |> about it. Well, that's nonsense, as most readers probably already suspected ... |> Happily, you can just remove the antique perl they include, and build a |> current one. 5.001m builds very easily under 2.0.5R; I imagine it won't have |> too much trouble, and will be quickly adjusted to fix anything they break, |> for 2.1R. Quoting from /usr/ports/lang/perl5/Makefile: % # New ports collection makefile for: perl5 % # Version required: 5.001 % # Date created: 16 April 1995 % # Whom: markm % # % # $Id: Makefile,v 1.6 1995/07/04 17:31:04 jmz Exp $ % # % % DISTNAME= perl5.001m It builds indeed trivially on every FreeBSD system, just say "make" in the "/usr/ports/lang/perl5" directory and wait for the biuild to complete, of even easier, use "pkg_add perl-5.001.tgz" to install the pre-built binary package (possibly automatically fetching it from some FreeBSD mirror site, see the man pages ...) STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>