Re: Recompiling Perl 5.8.6

2006-07-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:40:10AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > Anyways, I can build a GDBM port, it's no hardship, and probably trivial > to do... Committed. Quite simple, seems to work. Much better than recompiling the whole of perl.

Re: Recompiling Perl 5.8.6

2006-07-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:42:25PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > Is it OK to download perl 5.8.6 (the same that is in OpenBSD 3.9) > then compile it using supplied hints/openbsd.sh and install over the > existing perl? I want GDBM_File and GDBM_File is in perl 5.8.6. > No, you don't know that it i

Re: Recompiling Perl 5.8.6

2006-07-15 Thread Andreas Kahari
What is wrong with having two separate Perl installations, the base one (untouched), and your own one (in e.g. /opt or /usr/opt or wherever you'd like)? Andreas On 15/07/06, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it OK to download perl 5.8.6 (the same that is in OpenBSD 3.9) then compile i

Recompiling Perl 5.8.6

2006-07-15 Thread Karel Kulhavy
Is it OK to download perl 5.8.6 (the same that is in OpenBSD 3.9) then compile it using supplied hints/openbsd.sh and install over the existing perl? I want GDBM_File and GDBM_File is in perl 5.8.6. - will the perl still work (at least pkg_add and pkg_delete)? - will GDBM_File start working? I tr