Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:26:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net> To: markm@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: bin/6539 Message-ID: <199807071826.OAA06100@istari.home.net> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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