Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:56:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Batie <alan@agora.rdrop.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/100449: PERL_VERSION set incorrectly in bsd.ports.mk Message-ID: <200607171956.k6HJuM9A067567@agora.rdrop.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200607172000.k6HK0bDN020249@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 100449 >Category: ports >Synopsis: PERL_VERSION set incorrectly in bsd.ports.mk >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 17 20:00:36 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Alan Batie >Release: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 >Organization: RainDrop Laboratories >Environment: System: FreeBSD agora.rdrop.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Mon Feb 3 00:57:16 PST 2003 root@agora.rdrop.com:/usr/src/freebsd/src/sys/compile/AGORA i386 >Description: bsd.port.mk fixes PERL_VERSION based on what shipped with the particular OS version, not based on what is currently installed and/or selected by use.perl. This causes many ports that depend on a newer version of perl to refuse to build, despite the fact that a supported version of perl is available. >How-To-Repeat: check out a current version of ports on an older version of FreeBSD (4.x for example). try to build a port that requires perl 5.6 or later (e.g. net-mgmt/p5-Net-SNMP) >Fix: workaround is to edit bsd.port.mk and force PERL_VERSION to the version, though I suspect there are some issues with this and I haven't fully tested it. Between the system and port instances of perl, and the myriad version libraries, perl module version management is a nightmare on long-lived systems... >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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