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

[Steven Lembark]

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 :-).


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