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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:06:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com>
To:        Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        tobez@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Perl 5.8.4 issues in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20040718180520.C97857@saronni.int.networktest.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040718194326.GA81260@totem.fix.no>
References:  <20040718194326.GA81260@totem.fix.no>

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I built a 4.10 box the other day and installed perl 5.8.4 from ports -- no
errors.

Did you cvsup your ports collection before doing the install?

dn

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Anders Nordby wrote:

> Hi tobez@, perl@,
>
> I found a couple of problems/oddities with the FreeBSD port for Perl
> 5.8.4 using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE. I want to know if you are aware of
> them and/or are working on a fix. I'll file a PR with more information
> if you want.
>
> It's not building:
>
> ---snip---
>         Making MIME::Base64 (dynamic)
> Writing Makefile for MIME::Base64
> cp QuotedPrint.pm ../../../lib/MIME/QuotedPrint.pm
> cp Base64.pm ../../../lib/MIME/Base64.pm
> ../../../miniperl "-I../../../lib" "-I../../../lib"
> ../../../lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap ../../../lib/ExtUtils/typemap
> Base64.xs > Base64.xsc && mv Base64.xsc Base64.c
> cc -c    -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/BSDPAN"
> -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing
> -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe    -DVERSION=\"3.01\"
> -DXS_VERSION=\"3.01\" -DPIC -fPIC "-I../../.."   Base64.c
> Base64.xs: In function `XS_MIME__Base64_decode_base64':
> Base64.xs:224: `dowarn' undeclared (first use in this function)
> Base64.xs:224: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> Base64.xs:224: for each function it appears in.)
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.4/ext/MIME/Base64.
> *** Error code 1
> ---snip---
>
> I solved this temporarily by removing the check of whether dowarn is set
> in work/perl-5.8.4/ext/MIME/Base64/Base64.xs. This does not seem to
> happen when I install in an empty, clean 4.10-RELEASE sandbox however.
> :-X Not sure why. But I do see by Googling that others have/had the same
> problem. Anyway, yes, I did completely uninstall any perl ports before
> building ports/lang/perl5.8 here. And the OS/jail where I cannot build
> perl5.8 does have fresh include/share/libdata dirs without old, stale
> files.
>
> 2) After installing it and running use.perl port, perl does not run
> anymore if you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
>
> # perl -v
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: perl: Undefined symbol "PL_exit_flags"
>
> By moving /usr/lib/libperl* out of the away, or unsetting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, this issue is bypassed.
>
> Are these issues known? Are a number of LD_LIBRARY_PATH using users
> using old libperl without knowing it? Should they? Etc.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Anders.
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