From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 19:18:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4375416A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CD643D2D for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040424021857.YPYS3003.out004.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:18:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4089CE88.6070703@mac.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:18:48 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20040424011249.GA20496@xor.obsecurity.org> <4089C7E3.5050108@ciam.ru> In-Reply-To: <4089C7E3.5050108@ciam.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:18:57 -0500 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: If you're bored during the freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:18:58 -0000 Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >> perl ports seem to be a particular problem >> here; some of them seem to put files in different places with 4.x's >> perl 5.00503 and 5.x's default perl 5.8. Nonetheless, the perl ports >> are a real mess, and there's a LOT of work that needs to be done here. > > We should rework a perl build/install procedure. But tobez@ is like a > black hole for this point. BTW, perl 5.8.3 is not in ports tree still. Last I checked, simply switching the 2 to a 3 and zapping the distfile resulted in a perl binary that passed all of the checks in "make test". Make that a 4, as: "The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Perl Release 5.8.4, the fourth maintenance release of Perl 5.8. The CPAN ftp multiplexor will pick a mirror close to you: bz2 : ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.4.tar.bz2 (9598489 bytes) gz : ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.4.tar.gz (12094233 bytes)" -- -Chuck PS: Isn't there a maintainer timeout which should apply sooner or later?