Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:06:12 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with help2man and perl during Gnome upgrade Message-ID: <20050316130612.GC88376@iib.unsam.edu.ar> In-Reply-To: <20050316105118.GA19417@vision.anyware> References: <20050316105118.GA19417@vision.anyware>
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+----[ Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> (16.Mar.2005 07:55):
|
| 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.
Jean-Baptiste,
I know it is perhaps possible to have different versions of
perl installed. However, if you're using the ports system to
install things (i.e. gnome), then perhaps it is a problem,
since the perl modules are looked for and installed in the
path specified in SITE_PERL, wich according to bsd.port.mk
is ${LOCALBASE}/lib/perl5/site_perl/${PERL_VER}
Do you need to use both 5.6 and 5.8? Or perhaps your
intention was to upgrade to 5.8 but still got some modules
installed under the xxx/site_perl/5.6.x/ directory?
If this is the case, the recommended procedure to update
your perl and all of the modules, is the one shown in
/usr/ports/UPDATING, read the entry for 20050201
| 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, as I believe most other FreeBSD 4.x users also have two
perl dists installed. One comes with the base system
(5.005). The other is the one that most of us install from
ports.
BUT, once you install perl from ports you MUST run the
use.perl script to adjust symlinks and other necessary
things so that only ONE perl is seen and used.
| 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.
I believe you should take some time to clean your installed
perl dists and associated modules.
| Besides that and a couple of other failures, I can now happily run
| Gnome 2.10. Thank you!
|
+----]
Hope this helps,
Fernan
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