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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Belgium.EU.net!god.bel.alcatel.be!bln.sel.alcatel.de!slsv6bt!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: perl 4 problems on 2.1.0-RELEASE Date: 14 Dec 1995 10:56:03 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 45 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4aovs3$7p3@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <4aoafs$i0t@news.cic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) In article <4aoafs$i0t@news.cic.net>, pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) writes: |> |> I'm having all manner of problems getting perl 4.036 built on FreeBSD 2.1.0. |> I don't want perl5 for what I'm doing, and I don't want to rewrite a big |> pile of code to make it work under perl5. Hmmm, one of us seems to be a little confused :) I thought that there was no "port" of perl-4.036 because it comes in /usr/bin of every FreeBSD system since at least 2.0 ... |> Unfortunately perl4 appears to have vanished from the ports area on |> ftp.cdrom.com. I assume it was retired at some point in the past... No, not at all! |> Does anyone have a config.sh file for perl 4.036 that worked for them on |> some recent incarnation of FreeBSD 2.x? If so, please email. se@x14> type perl perl is hashed (/usr/bin/perl) se@x14> perl -v This is perl, version 4.0 $RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 1.4 $$Date: 1995/05/30 05:03:10 $ Patch level: 36 Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 4.0 source kit. se@x14> ls /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Artistic README emacs/ perl/ x2p/ CVS/ VERSION h2pl/ sperl/ Copying Wishlist lib/ tperl/ Makefile eg/ misc/ usub/ Regards, 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/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>