On 4 January 2011 20:11, <ja...@gnix.co.uk> wrote: > hi everyone > > When i installed FreeBSD 8.1 the other day i was just going to keep it a > console-based system with no X just to do a bit of coding and stuff. I then > installed perl 5.12. > > A few days later I changed my mind and installed X with a window manager and > a few other things. Somehow - not sure when and why - one of the ports > installed perl 5.10 as a dependancy setting itself as the default perl > installation for the system so i ended with a mix of ports build against > different perl versions. > > I've mostly fixed this by doing a: > > `env DISABLE_CONFLICTS=1 portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\*` > > followed by: > > `portupgrade -fr perl` (which didn't do anything :-/ ) > > or at least i thought i had, but it seems there are a few perl modules that > aren't behaving and i think i need to just rebuild all the perl stuff again. > I wondered, should i do this and if so if there's a particular > ports-management tool that would be best suited to this? >
Do you have PERL_VERSION= set correctly in /etc/make.conf? -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
