>> >I think you really should nuke both perls and reinstall everything.
>> >After all, that's what we have binary packages for - I upgraded my sparc
>> >to 1.5 yesterday, and reinstalled all software via pkgs. Worked like a
>> >charm.
>> 
>> indeed!  i wouldn't be anywhere nearly as upset except for the fact
>> that i decided yesterday that i was really running out of disk space
>> and what did i need all these work directories for anyway.  :)
>
>Uh, I mean *real* binary pkgs:
>
>setenv PKG_PATH ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/All
>pkg_add -v perl

i know about those, but i have the time, source, and machine power to
spend building the stuff, which i already did.  :)

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