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From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>
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To: markm@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6539
In-Reply-To: Mail from 'Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG>'
      dated: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 17:04:23 -0700 (PDT)
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> From: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 17:04:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: bin/6539
> 
> Synopsis: [PATCH] bmake version of perl5 available
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: suspended-feedback
> State-Changed-By: markm
> State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 6 16:59:23 PDT 1998
> State-Changed-Why: 
> I am going to follow this one through to committal.
> 
> There are some problems; 1) Please go through the supplied (bmaked) tarball
> and remove the contrib/perl5 directory - please rather supply this as a
> set of minimalist patches to make the software FreeBSD-aware. 2) If any files
> need creaing (config.h springs to mind) then please rather put that in
> src/usr.bin/include/.

I'm confused by this message. Last I heard, Peter Wemm (peter@netplex.com.au)
was going to do something on this -- I made a (feeble) offer to try to help
if I could.

This message sounds like you don't want perl5 under the contrib tree. I
would think that it belongs there like the rest of the contrib software....

Just for the record, Peter sent the following problems (with the tar file):

	- it uses sdbm and dbm rather than the libc db

	- the contrib/perl5 sources appear to be fairly modified,
	  and have been configured at least.  The configure run
	  doesn't appear to match the per5 port's settings or patches.

	- there doesn't seem to be any solution to adding perl
	  modules with MakeMaker..  We need a way to be able to build
	  and install modules, preferably being able to load them
	  from /usr/local as well as /usr/libdata to avoid duplication.

	- it would be nice to be able to link it with other things
	  in the base that want to use it, such as nvi..  - a
	  <bsd.perl5.mk> make include file would be really nice, it
	  could automate the building a good deal of the bundled
	  modules as well as be usable by the ports system for the
	  stack of CPAN modules there.

To which I added:

	- you currently can't install man pages with ":"s in them
	  [PR misc/6612]

So, where do we go from here?

Thanks,
-SR


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