Upgrading perl 5.8

[Daniel Bye]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:34:30PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm upgrading perl 5.8 from the ports on a FreeBSD 5.3 machine, the 
> problem is that alot of my installed modules doesn't work after the 
> update (just a minor update from 5.8.2 to 5.8.6), probably becuase the 
> @INC changed and did not include the mach directory of 5.8.2. Is this 
> right ? Why can't it include the 5.8.2 mach dir ?

There's nothing to stop you adding the 5.8.2 directories to @INC.  But
the cleanest way to solve this is to upgrade everything else on your
system that depends on Perl.  Portmanager is really good for this sort
of task.

Dan

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