System vs. Ports Perl

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:33 -0600, Aaron Dalton wrote:
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> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> | On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 11:36 -0600, Aaron Dalton wrote:
> | *sighs*  Indeed.  I've had my testing jails installed so long I had
> | forgotten that.  Ok then.  Is there a way for me to tell the RELENG_5
> | tinderbox to use lang/perl5 instead of lang/perl5.8?
> |
> |> You could modify bsd.port.mk for that portstree, or create a jail.env
> |> file that sets the correct environment variables so that lang/perl5 is
> |> sucked in.  I think you'd have to do:
> |
> |> export PERL_VER=5.6.1
> |> export PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
> |
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> I chose to use a build.env and it works like a charm, thank you.  Is
> there a reason information regarding the various .env files are not in
> the main documentation?  I had to search the mailing list archives to
> find out exactly how they work.  Maybe a FAQ somewhere?

I guess the short answer is no one got around to it.  If you'd like to
submit a patch for the main documentation, it would gladly be accepted.

Joe

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