On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:54:32 -0500, "James K. Lowden"
<jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to build perl, but it fails without
> fetching the distfile.  

pbkac.  I should have done this before writing to the list:

$ /usr/sbin/pkg_info |grep perl
perl-5.6.1nb7       Practical Extraction and Report Language

<blush>  It was already installed, must have been a dependency for
something else.  

Thanks for the off-list help.  Sorry for the noise.  

--jkl