Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:32:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F.Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/152581: worrisome error while installing mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin Message-ID: <20101125213206.724B5BDC76@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Resent-Message-ID: <201011252140.oAPLeAu7099823@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 152581 >Category: ports >Synopsis: worrisome error while installing mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin >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: Thu Nov 25 21:40:10 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ronald F. Guilmette >Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Infinite Monkeys & Co. >Environment: System: FreeBSD segfault.tristatelogic.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 5 02:38:40 PDT 2008 root@segfault.monkeys.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/rfg20080805 i386 >Description: While doing a portinstall of p5-Mail-SpamAssassin I saw this error, which is troubling: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util/DependencyInfo.pm line 324. The context was as follows: ============================================================================= ... ===> Configuring for p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1_2 NOTE: settings for "make test" are now controlled using "t/config.dist". See that file if you wish to customise what tests are run, and how. checking module dependencies and their versions... Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util/DependencyInfo.pm line 324. *************************************************************************** ERROR: the required Archive::Tar module is installed (), but is below the minimum required version 1.23, some functionality will not be available. The "sa-update" program requires this module to access tar update archive files. ... ============================================================================= >How-To-Repeat: portinstall p5-Mail-SpamAssassin >Fix: I don't know how to fix this, but obviously, some Perl veriable is not being set when it should be. And apparently I'm not the first person to have seen this issue: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SlOHFqIQvbkJ:www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D37145+Use+of+uninitialized+value+in+concatenation+%28.%29+or+string+at+lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util/DependencyInfo.pm+line+324&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vn0YPX5S-twJ:www.webhostingtalk.ir/f85/12973/+Use+of+uninitialized+value+in+concatenation+%28.%29+or+string+at+lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util/DependencyInfo.pm+line+324&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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