From: Liviu Daia (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 17:52:04 EST
On 1 December 2002, Len Conrad <> wrote:
>
> >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'
Sys::Hostname is supposed to come with Perl.
> 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?
Well, Perl 5.8 is definitely not required, both Net::IP and
Number::Format seem to be working fine here with 5.6.1.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
-- Dr. Liviu Daia e-mail: Institute of Mathematics web page: http://www.imar.ro/~daia of the Romanian Academy PGP key: http://www.imar.ro/~daia/daia.asc
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