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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:17:11 +0100
From:      dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell)
To:        Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>, gnats-admin@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/30368: New port: net/p5-RPC-XML
Message-ID:  <20010906151710.A13837@cathbad.happygiraffe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010906152835.A11643@heechee.tobez.org>; from tobez@tobez.org on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:28:35PM %2B0200
References:  <20010906072006.31CBE17F@ppe.happygiraffe.net> <200109060730.f867U1H13441@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010906100929.A800@cathbad.happygiraffe.net> <20010906152835.A11643@heechee.tobez.org>

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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:28:35PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:09:29AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > The PR I filed mentioned another PR which I had filed; I've now got
> > the number back for this; it's PR 30369.  However, when trying to
> > build File::Spec now, I get warnings about different versions and
> > trying to build the attached port, because it's not using the correct
> > version of File::Spec (it's using the one in /usr/libdata/perl, not
> > /usr/local/lib/perl/site-perl)..
> 
> > I'm not sure what the best way to fix this issue is...
> 
> Uh oh.  The best way is to import perl 5.6.1 into the system, modified
> in such a way as to search through SITELIB before PRIVLIB...
> 
> Without that, there is no easy solution that can be automated;  it is
> trivial for the user of RPC::XML, of course, to properly set the
> PERL5LIB environment variable.

Perhaps if we patched the RPC::XML module before installing it to
place site-perl ahead of the normal modules in @INC...  But that is kind
of ugly.  Maybe I should just work this out with the author to make it
backwards compatible and resubmit the port later when it is.

-Dom

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