problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1

[Mike Jakubik]

Mike Hunter said:

> On Dec 07, "Mike Jakubik" wrote:
>
>> Mike Hunter said:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm new to amd64 as of this nice new dual opteron box I've just
>> > received...I may be seeing a lot of you guys in the coming weeks :)
>>
>> Any reason why you installed 5.2.1 (Its an old pre-release version)? If
>> this is a fresh box, then i highly recommend you install 5.3 instead.
>> Perl
>> 5.8.5 is packaged with 5.3 too.
>
> Actually I did 5.2.1 because that was the install media I had handy :)
> I'm building a RELENG_5 world/kernel as we speak...I'll be back if it
> doesn't work out :)

Well, don't make a habbit of installing old releases. I would still
recommend you install 5.3 from scratch instead.