Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:51:20 +0100 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> To: freebsd-ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Problems with help2man and perl during Gnome upgrade Message-ID: <20050316105118.GA19417@vision.anyware>
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Hello, First, thank you very much for the efforts of bringing the latest Gnome to FreeBSD. Before the upgrade, I had two perl dists installed, namely 5.6 and 5.8. I discovered that after trying to run gnome_upgrade.sh, which failed at help2man, depending on p5-Locale-gettext not installed in the perl dist used by this port. The problem with help2man is that its configure script is designed to call "perl" or "perl5" directly, maybe the configure script could be patched with the real perl given by bsd.port.mk. I find it also surprising to be able to have several perl dists installed. I haven't come across a conflict, ever! I decided to deinstall the old 5.6 perl, but help2man still couldn't install, because the symlinks to the perl executable in /usr/bin were removed when deinstalling perl 5.6. Soooo! I tried to place the links myself, but help2man's configure complained that pod2man was missing. So I removed the broken perl 5.8, and pod2man reappeared. Then, help2man was happy installing. Besides that and a couple of other failures, I can now happily run Gnome 2.10. Thank you! -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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