From: Len Conrad (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 17:06:05 EST
>One caveat for the original poster -- these versions use
>'character class syntax [: :]', which isn't supported by the perl
>version installed with FreeBSD 4.7 (/usr/src/contrib/perl5).
>Changing the character classes into old style regular expressions,
>e.g., [[:alnum:]] into [0-9A-Za-z], appears to work fine.
worse, the new mods needed:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::IP'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Sys::Hostname'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Number::Format'
takes one into a full upgrade of PERL 5 to 5.8, which on slower machines
takes a ton of time.
Is there anyway to avoid that 5.8 hell?
thanks
Len
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