Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I think I only went from perl 5.6 to 5.8, I'm surprised that so much would
be out of date. Good to know though. Do the other scripting languages have
this kind of support? Python?
Even among scripting languages, perl is unique in its
On 27/03/06 Lowell Gilbert said:
Even among scripting languages, perl is unique in its pathological
lack of backward compatibility. The FreeBSD maintainers do a nice job
of limiting the pain, but you *do* have to follow their directions.
Python's worse. :(
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:18:41PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Hi there,
I'm trying to build spamassassin from ports.
So, I go to /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin and make.
=== Checking if devel/p5-Test-Harness already installed
=== p5-Test-Harness-2.56 is already
On 26/03/06 Matthew Seaman said:
Did you run the perl-after-upgrade script with the '-f' flag so it
actually does anything? This symptom occurs when the pkg system
thinks a package is installed (because there's an entry in
/var/db/pkgs) but perl can't find the corresponding module, because
On 26/03/06 Matthew Seaman said:
Did you run the perl-after-upgrade script with the '-f' flag so it
actually does anything? This symptom occurs when the pkg system
thinks a package is installed (because there's an entry in
/var/db/pkgs) but perl can't find the corresponding module, because
Hello Michael,
* Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [26-03-06 08:19]:
Nope, I didn't do that. How would I know to do that? :)
reading /usr/ports/UPDATING :)
Best regards,
Matthias
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:30:04AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
As I think I only went from perl 5.6 to 5.8, I'm surprised that so
much would be out of date.
That's actually quite a change, as Perl 5.6.2 dates from, I think,
November 2003, while Perl 5.8.8 was released February 2006.
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Hi there,
I'm trying to build spamassassin from ports.
So, I go to /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin and make.
=== Checking if devel/p5-Test-Harness already installed
=== p5-Test-Harness-2.56 is already installed
You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
Michael P. Soulier writes:
Whoops. Apparently it doesn't need to upgrade.
Should I make deinstall? And if so, why, since it doesn't need to
upgrade?
In your shoes I would deinstall/reinstall Test-Harness, then
retry the build of SpamAssassin. My gut reaction os the package db