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From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: perl 4 problems on 2.1.0-RELEASE
Date: 14 Dec 1995 10:56:03 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser)
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To: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)

In article <4aoafs$i0t@news.cic.net>, pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) writes:
|> 
|> I'm having all manner of problems getting perl 4.036 built on FreeBSD 2.1.0.
|> I don't want perl5 for what I'm doing, and I don't want to rewrite a big
|> pile of code to make it work under perl5.

Hmmm, one of us seems to be a little confused :)

I thought that there was no "port" of perl-4.036
because it comes in /usr/bin of every FreeBSD system
since at least 2.0 ...

|> Unfortunately perl4 appears to have vanished from the ports area on 
|> ftp.cdrom.com.  I assume it was retired at some point in the past...

No, not at all!

|> Does anyone have a config.sh file for perl 4.036 that worked for them on
|> some recent incarnation of FreeBSD 2.x?  If so, please email.

se@x14> type perl
perl is hashed (/usr/bin/perl)
se@x14> perl -v

This is perl, version 4.0

$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 1.4 $$Date: 1995/05/30 05:03:10 $
Patch level: 36

Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 4.0 source kit.
se@x14> ls /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl
Artistic        README          emacs/          perl/           x2p/
CVS/            VERSION         h2pl/           sperl/
Copying         Wishlist        lib/            tperl/
Makefile        eg/             misc/           usub/

Regards, STefan
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