problems installing perl-5.8.8

Glenn Sieb ges+lists at wingfoot.org
Tue Apr 3 21:35:08 UTC 2007


Don Munyak wrote:
> I am having problems installing perl5.8.8 on a up-to-date FreeBSD-6.2.
> After running...
> 
> web# cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> web# make
> scripts install perl...
> 
> web# make test
> (8) tests fail with the following message

Hmm.. 'make' by itself only prepares the source to be installed.. try 
doing 'make install' ... it should run 'make test' for you. :)

Good luck!
Best,
--Glenn


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