Re: compile errors in new PL/Pler

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

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