Re: Upgrading to Perl v5.6.1

[Ken Williams]

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 10:51  AM, Vic Norton wrote:

I just tried installing Mail-Box-2.034. Apparently the Perl v5.6.0 that came with my new iMac is not recent enough:

~/Download/Mail-Box-2.034% perl Makefile.PL
Perl v5.6.1 required--this is only v5.6.0, stopped at Makefile.PL line 5.

I'm really not interested in trying to install Perl v.5.8. Is there a simple way of upgrading 5.6.0->5.6.1?

Yeah - if you use fink, you can use the instructions I give here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/macosx%40perl.org/msg04405.html

After installing it, you might then want to make /usr/bin/perl a symlink to /sw/bin/perl. Or you might not, if you think 5.6.1 is going to break any Apple stuff (which I don't tend to think it will).


-Ken