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

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:55:12 -0400
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
>

Here is the error output.  I see no errors in config.log relative to perl, 
although there are lots of lines
there.  With perl-5.12.4 the missing subroutine seems to be installed as part 
of the port, but not with
5.8.9.  Might have to add a warning to UPDATING for the vile/xvile ports.

===>  Building for vile-9.8g
cc -I. -I.  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -D_BSD_TYPES -D__BSD_VISIBLE 
-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600  
-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK 
-DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing  
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -rpath /usr/local/lib  -o ./mktbls  ./mktbls.c
perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/typemap  -typemap ptypemap  ./perl.xs > 
perl.c
Undefined subroutine &ExtUtils::ParseXS::errors called at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/xsubpp line 41.
*** [perl.c] Error code 2
1 error
*** [do-build] Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/vile.
*** [install] Error code 1

-- 
Gary Jennejohn