Upgrading Perl

If you are going to upgrade perl (currently, if you go to 5.8.7), be sure to read the /usr/ports/UPDATING note:

20050624:
AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8

lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.7.  You should update
everything depending on perl.  The easiest way to do that is
to use perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8.
Please see its manual page for details.

In other words:

run "perl-after-upgrade" (note the remarks)


run "perl-after-upgrade -f" (to make the changes)