On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
1. Is this expected behavior?Yes, see above.2. If I reinstall perl from pkgsrc, will the problem go away?Yes.3. If I reinstall, will I then have to reinstall all the p5-* packages?At most the ones that has native code, I guess (I don't know it perl XS ABI exposes this, or not).
Yeah, that's my problem, too. I've got about 60+ packages that depend on perl, and I really don't want to have to remove and reinstall them all if I can avoid it.
Is 'make replace' the correct incantantion to replace the existing perl with a new one without paying attention to package dependancies?
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