From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 25 06:36:45 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35C36DF5 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADE042E17 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:36:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mandree.no-ip.org ([92.228.227.138]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lpfas-1V7ewh3W90-00fOVq for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:36:43 +0100 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost6.localdomain6 [IPv6:::1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2EE23CE7C for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:36:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5292EFF2.9040108@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:36:34 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery! References: <87614.1385244732@server1.tristatelogic.com> <52912B5F.2090606@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <52912B5F.2090606@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:7CLJ5oMMOSHEIcnr8g1e7urUc4eFkswOJs/2GjB5xyDdq8dCq8P yspYBS4tLSZ8un8nDPAfzW0d5NpKtRDYpQIdwKINjctkBXufJia2BQXLCurCVbxGYN8z6Vx VxR4A9gaLGwyS2pIHVOXVWTcM9xWCmSx+KOJyPs11IsLN08Co0h6lPTvIm9gs2s/55NMCf8 OWByCHL5nlk88kV62wzzA== X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:36:45 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.11.2013 23:25, schrieb Matthew Seaman: > On 23/11/2013 22:12, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >>> and you will thus need to recompile all ports that depend on Perl. >> This is the part that is still utterly baffling. >> >> Why would _anything_ that is in any way dependent upon the Perl interpreter >> need to be rebuilt? In this switch to threads=on, has the language itself >> changed? And if not, shouldn't the change to multi-threading capability >> within the interpreter be utterly transparent to (and a non-event for) >> any and all pre-existing Perl code? >> >> Obviously, there's something that I'm missing, but I have no idea what it >> might be. > > Technically, you don't actually need to recompile something that's pure > perl, or that only requires perl to run some scripts. However > everything that has a binary interface with perl -- XS modules, software > with embedded perl interpreters -- certainly will need recompiling to > match the new threaded ABI that has now become the default. > > The advice to 'recompile everything that depends on perl' is overkill, > but it's a simple way to be sure that you have in fact recompiled > everything necessary. Picking out only those ports that really needed > to be recompiled would require a procedure too unweildy to be usefully > described in UPDATING. Well, we might want to revive a Makefile target or script that helped with that. If we have that in place, perhaps as separate perl-upgrade-helper port, we don't need lengthy fragile explanations... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKS7/EACgkQvmGDOQUufZXlgwCeK/ddZ9nWPVTzZltLqutKYPVH Io8AnjuXprpF3hL36Wknpi5PrKrj0a5h =du2J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----