On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>>> I am going to bet dollars to donuts that it is your perl version. Perl
>>> 5.00503 is ancient. Try upgrading to at least 5.6.
>
>> Not much I can do about that - it's builtin as part of FreeBSD 4.x series.
>
> Chris isn't the only one who's going to insist on fixing this ;-)
>
> $ perl -v
> This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for PA-RISC2.0
And on FreeBSD 4.x, you can force use of the perl 5.[68] ports by installing
one of them, and then issuing:
use.perl port
from a root shell.
(It won't help Tom, but will on FreeBSD. )
LER
--
Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org
US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
