Re: [vile] does vile-9.8g require perl newer than perl-5.8.9?

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Mon, 21 May 2012 00:58:13 +0000
Steven Lembark <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:55:12 -0400
> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:38:43AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > So, I'm finally getting around to updating the FreeBSD ports to
> > > vile-9.8g after a long hiatus.
> > > 
> > > I had perl-5.8.9 installed and noticed that I couldn't enable perl
> > > with this version because some perl functionality was missing during
> > > the processing of perl.xs.  Don't remember all the gory details.
> > > 
> > > After installing perl-5.12.4 it all worked.
> > > 
> > > So... does vile now require a newer version of perl or was it just a
> > > problem with a missing perl-5.8.9 package?
> > 
> > It sounds like some missing dependency.  Looking at my logs (at machines
> > I've built on during the past year, and which I could use for testing),
> > I see that I've been able to build using 5.005003, 5.6.1, 5.8.4, 5.8.5, 
> > 5.8.9
> > as well as 5.12
> > 
> > The most recent version appears to be 5.14
> 
> As of today it is 5.16.
> 
> 5.8 is no longer supported.
> 5.10 is on the way to dinosaur-land.
> 
> I'd suggest basing anything you do on 5.12 at
> the earliest (which at least allows you to drop
> the "use strict" lines from your code :-).
> 

I just let the ports use whatever version got installed.  There's a note
in /usr/ports/UPDATING about moving to at least 5.12, so I figured that
was good enough.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn