Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:15:43 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: mat@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/61609: spamassassin now requires Perl 5.8 Message-ID: <20040120051543.DABCCF@be-well.no-ip.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200401200520.i0K5KM3Q054205@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 61609 >Category: ports >Synopsis: spamassassin now requires Perl 5.8 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 19 21:20:20 PST 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Lowell Gilbert >Release: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD be-well.ilk.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #61: Fri Jan 16 13:05:32 EST 2004 root@be-well.ilk.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BE-WELL i386 FreeBSD be-well.ilk.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #61: Fri Jan 16 13:05:32 EST 2004 root@be-well.ilk.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BE-WELL i386 >Description: p5-Mail-SpamAssassin now fails with the stock perl in -STABLE This change came in the update from Mail-SpamAssassin 2.61 to 2.62. >How-To-Repeat: Running the latest ports version of SpamAssassin on a -STABLE system, a perl error results: Can't use subscript on split at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 100, near "1]" >Fix: I suppose the obvious solution would be to require perl 5.8, but that doesn't seem very friendly... The particular subscript in question should be easy enough to avoid, but there seem to be other 5.8isms introduced also. I'll look further when I get a chance, but perl is not exactly my preferred language. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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