On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:34:01AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:53:55PM +0100, Mark Huizer wrote: > > Did anyone ever create some kind of 'best practice' on how to upgrade > > ports' perl on a system? I see quite a lof dependencies, and the issue > > is/might be that files are installed in directories carrying the perl > > version number. > > What do people do to make this transition? upgrade perl and make a > > symlink? Upgrade perl and reinstall all ports? deinstall everything and > > reinstall? > > Add this to make.conf: > > PERL_VER=5.8.2 > PERL_VERSION=5.8.2 > PERL_ARCH=mach > NOPERL=yo > NO_PERL=yo > NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo > > Remove old perl port, install perl 5.8, rebuild p5*, fix dependencies > with pkgdb -F. There's a couple of other bits that need upgrading along with Perl. The on that bit me last time was autoconf (or automake; can't remember). Every port that used autoconf failed with "can't find file", even though autoconf was present. A closer look showed that the hashbang line was pointing at the old no-longer-present Perl. -DomReceived on Sat Feb 07 2004 - 02:41:45 UTC
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