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From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To: will@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: ports/23961: New port: textproc/p5-Text-FixedLength-Extra (Various niceties for p5-Text-FixedLength lovers)
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On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:33:15PM -0800, will@FreeBSD.org wrote:

> I had problems with this port:
> 
> ===>  Configuring for p5-Text-FixedLength-Extra-1.0
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> Could not eval '
>             package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
>             no strict;
> 
>             local $VERSION;
>             $VERSION=undef; do {
>                 our $VERSION = '1.0';
>             }; $VERSION
>         ' in Extra.pm: Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at (eval 7) line 7, at EOF
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Seems your Extra.pm patch is buggy.

Argh.  It is not, it is simply not complete.  The author of the module
is apparently fed up with `use vars qw($bla)' syntax and uses
5.6.0-specific `our $bla' instead.

Now, I can do one of two things:

a) mark it as broken on -stable

or

b) patch Extra.pm more, replacing all `our $bla' to their equivalents;
   there are six occurences of these.

I am unsure what action to take, and would like to ask for -ports
advice.

Cheers,
%Anton.
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