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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 02:54:07PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 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.

I see.  That looks familiar (was probably something that I had to add
in one or more platforms - rpms seem to be where this was needed).
In some cases, package dependencies would pull it in automatically...

On Debian 5.0, that's found here:

perl-modules: /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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