On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 05:34:25PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
[..]

Something is really strange. Right now i would claim that something is wrong
with the linux support of perl in pkgsrc.

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> And again my installed perl MESSAGE says:
> 
>   perl-5.8.6nb3 will use the following directory as the default
>   location of the site-specific Perl modules:
> 
>           /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
> 
> But I don't have that directory:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Dec 23 09:24 5.8.3
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Dec 30 07:25 5.8.5
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Dec 30 07:25 man

How can that happen?

Whats your 'perl -V' output?

`which perl`

> And on other system also with perl-5.8.6nb3, I have:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 May 11  2004 5.8.3
> 
> 
> > (The only time that happened to me, IIRC, was when I switched from
> > perl to perl-thread, something I did manually, without rebuilding
> > anything.)

With manually you mean make replace or everything manually?

Bernd