Re: compile errors in new PL/Pler

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>>>> I am going to bet dollars to donuts that it is your perl version. Perl
>>>> 5.00503 is ancient. Try upgrading to at least 5.6.
>>
>>> Not much I can do about that - it's builtin as part of FreeBSD 4.x
>>> series.
>>
>> Chris isn't the only one who's going to insist on fixing this ;-)
>>
>> $ perl -v
>> This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for PA-RISC2.0
>
> And on FreeBSD 4.x, you can force use of the perl 5.[68] ports by installing
> one of them, and then issuing:
>
> use.perl port
>
> from a root shell.
>
> (It won't help Tom, but will on FreeBSD. )

On a *reasonably* established FreeBSD box, that makes heavy use of perl
(ie. has *alot* of modules installed), I find that installing the port can
be a bit of a hardship ... on new machines, its something that I do
automatically, but it isn't a solution for older boxes, IMHO ...

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