Re: [vile] does vile-9.8g require perl newer than perl-5.8.9?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:38:43AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> So, I'm finally getting around to updating the FreeBSD ports to
> vile-9.8g after a long hiatus.
> 
> I had perl-5.8.9 installed and noticed that I couldn't enable perl
> with this version because some perl functionality was missing during
> the processing of perl.xs.  Don't remember all the gory details.
> 
> After installing perl-5.12.4 it all worked.
> 
> So... does vile now require a newer version of perl or was it just a
> problem with a missing perl-5.8.9 package?

It sounds like some missing dependency.  Looking at my logs (at machines
I've built on during the past year, and which I could use for testing),
I see that I've been able to build using 5.005003, 5.6.1, 5.8.4, 5.8.5, 5.8.9
as well as 5.12

The most recent version appears to be 5.14

Aside from some work a couple of years ago to accommodate different
versions of perl, I don't recall modifying anything that would affect
its dependencies.

Usually the missing piece is the perl development library, which has different
names on every system.  For example I have this on Debian 5.0:

ii  libperl-dev                                              5.10.0-19lenny5    
                  Perl library: development files

The configure script makes a test-compile with a fragment that exercises
the usual problem areas.  Details would show up in config.log

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