On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:06:25 +0100, Gunnar Wrobel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I tried to install exim-4.43-r2 it failed because of missing > symbols in the perl library. According to this link > (http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.00/doc/html/FAQ_13.html#TOC215) this > can happen if there are two different versions of perl installed at the > same time. > When I look into my /usr/lib/perl5 directory it has a 5.8.4 and a 5.8.5 > directory. So apparently both versions are installed but > /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/ only lists perl-5.8.5-r2 as installed. > Now I am confused and don't understand why the 5.8.4 directory still > exists. Should it still be there? Was the unmerge unsuccessful? And what > can I do in order to remove the 5.8.4 version so that exim compiles? > In my opiniun the 5.8.4 directory can probably be safely removed but for safety why don't you just rename it to something else and then try reinstall exim ? If no problems arise then you can remove it totally. Nelis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
