on wed sep NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERpm NUMBER david raistrick wrote on wed NUMBER sep NUMBER stephane lentz wrote i faced a similar problem with the freebsd when trying to install spamassassin through the ports on my fresh freebsd NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER i had to define perlNUMBERlib with some given order of directories so that the latest file spec module get used good to hear it s not just me mind telling me how you set perlNUMBERlib specificly i ve tried a few things setenv in the shell as well as perlNUMBERlib inside the URL even on the perl command line with no success presuming your run bash note the directory lists perl e map print _ n inc then set up the shell variable perlNUMBERlib variable and put it in some bashrc for future use export perlNUMBERlib directoryNUMBER directoryNUMBER directoryNUMBER directoryNUMBER then try to install the software perlNUMBERlib is explained perlrun NUMBER do man perlrun for more information regards sl stephane lentz alcanet international internet services in remembrance URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 