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Kurtz Le Pirate - 08 Oct 2006 09:25 GMT

hi,

do yoy know how to upgrade perl on panther from 5.8.1-rc3 to 5.8.8 ?

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Dominic Dunlop - 08 Oct 2006 10:21 GMT

On 2006–10–08, at 10:25, kurtz le pirate wrote:

> do yoy know how to upgrade perl on panther from 5.8.1-rc3 to 5.8.8 ?

Resisting the temptation to reply through an English-to-Pirate
filter ...

You download the source distribution for perl-5.8.8 from perl.org
(it's <http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.bz2>, unpack it from the
archive, then follow the instructions in the INSTALL file,
supplemented by the platform-specific information in README.macosx.
You need to have Mac OS X development tools installed in order to do
this.

Alternatively, if you do not want to go through the (slight) pain of
building perl yourself, you can find a free binary distribution
somewhere below <http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/>.

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Dominic Dunlop - 08 Oct 2006 11:42 GMT

On 2006–10–08, at 11:21, I wrote:

> Alternatively, if you do not want to go through the (slight) pain
> of building perl yourself, you can find a free binary distribution
> somewhere below <http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/>.

Oh yes. The DarwinPorts, whoops, I mean MacPorts, project at <http://
www.macports.org/> and Fink at <http://fink.sourceforge.net> both
provide tools that allow you to install perl-5.8.8 either from source
code or from a binary distribution. But, in my opinion, it's not
worth installing and learning either toolkit if all you want to do is
get one package.

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