On 8/29/2012 1:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Jack Stone <ja...@sage-american.com> writes:
Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12
installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in
increments to get well past EOL.
You're somewhat on your own, then; I can't test any of my ideas before
suggesting them to you.
Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the
perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12
first to see if that works, then:
# make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean
I would be surprised if the perl-5.12 port will build for you; I think
you'll get the same error. If not, then yes, it should work.
What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl
program requires a minimum 5.12.
Well, it's also possible that there's a local problem on that
machine. You indicated that you used portupgrade for similar updates on
similarly-aged machines, but I'll guess that they were only roughly
similar. I'll guess that you built your own INDEX file; if not, you
probably should (and the associated database for portupgrade). Compare
the infrastructure in ports/Mk (and maybe /usr/share/mk) with the
similar machines that succeeded, and look at the Makefile in perl5.12 to
make sure it sets options properly.
Good luck.
Hi Lowell and thanks for the good wishes!
Yes, on the other servers which upgraded without issue are running the
same freebsd-7.x, and the make files are identical for the perl-5.12.
I just now ran a test on a test server of same vintage and it did
build directly in the port just using "make" to see if it would work.
It did. The trick is to DISABLE_CONFLICTS=YES in the /etc/make.conf.
This still doesn't mean the important production server will
cooperatebut will have to take a risk and try it. That server has a
bootable clone that is run every day so I can rescue the server. I
will just to make a fresh clone right before I try the perl upgradeso
to minimize any loss of data.
-- All the best, Jack
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