OK, here goes. I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE and trying to install all the LibXML/LibXSLT stuff from ports. With the stock install, most of these modules from CPAN require a higher ExtUtils::MakeMaker than the version included in perl 5.00x. I've tried a few different version, all leading to different problems under perl 5.005_3 (stock FBSD perl).

Using the latest release from CPAN (6.05), it spits out Makefiles looking for opnames.h, which doesn't exist in that perl.

Using the latest devel release (6.10_7) fixes that problem, but now most of the installations fail because a double // is getting inserted into the man3 paths.

Heading back to a 5.95 release yiels the opname.h problem again. Anyone here running a sane version ot ExtUtils greater than stock on FBSD perl 5.005?

This wasn't a problem about 6 months ago, yet now on new installs it seems like more work than it used to be.

-=Chris

In reply to ExtUtils::MakeMaker: Which version is sane for 5.005? by jk2addict

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