Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:02:21 -0700 From: Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca> To: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl and Module::Install Message-ID: <4192BA1D.6070306@daltons.ca> In-Reply-To: <20041110163535.GA49526@eborcom.com> References: <418E7DF3.6020706@daltons.ca> <20041109154830.GA21363@eborcom.com> <4190FD53.4030806@daltons.ca> <20041110163535.GA49526@eborcom.com>
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Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:24:35AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote:
>
>>The Makefile I have is as follows. I double checked and I indeed have
>>tabs and not just spaces between everything. Thanks for the help!
>
>
> Thanks. Your Makefile mostly looks fine. I've investigated your
> problem - it's due to a combination of bsd.port.mk doing something
> unusual which Email::Obfuscate's Makefile.PL isn't intelligent enough
> to deal with.
>
>
> As for the problem, line 14 of Email::Obfuscate's Makefile.PL calls:
> &Makefile->write if lc($0) eq 'makefile.pl';
>
> In line 3112 of bsd.port.mk we see:
> .if defined(PERL_CONFIGURE)
> @cd ${CONFIGURE_WRKSRC} && \
> ${SETENV} ${CONFIGURE_ENV} \
> ${PERL5} ./${CONFIGURE_SCRIPT} ${CONFIGURE_ARGS}
>
> So Makefile.PL (${CONFIGURE_SCRIPT}) is called with a trailing './',
> causing lc($0) to match './makefile.pl' as opposed to 'makefile.pl'.
>
> You will need to patch Email::Obfuscate to understand how it gets
> called more intelligently, and arguably bsd.port.mk should call
> Makefile.PL in its more typical 'Makefile.PL' guise instead of
> './Makefile.PL'.
>
> Tom
Thank you so much for your help, Tom. I really appreciate it. I've
made the change and now I need to learn how to actually do the whole
patching thing in the Makefile =) Fun!
Cheers!
Aaron
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