Re: pkg/41240: Perl5 build issue on opensolaris due to getconf

["Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall%telenet.be@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41240; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall%telenet.be@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/41240: Perl5 build issue on opensolaris due to getconf
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:46:46 +0200

 Jens Rehsack wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/41240; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 >  pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, mvergall%telenet.be@localhost, 
 >  Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 > Subject: Re: pkg/41240: Perl5 build issue on opensolaris due to getconf
 > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:21:47 +0000
 >
 >  Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
 >  
 >  >  Havard Eidnes wrote:
 >  >  >  Can you please describe in a bit more detail how it fails?  Does
 >  >  >  it only emit warnings during the build, or does it completely
 >  >  >  fail to build?  I don't have the environment to try this out
 >  >  >  myself.
 >  >  >  
 >  >  Yes I will,
 >  >  
 >  >  Due to the fact that getconf on solaris is totaly broken and the author
 >  >  does not want to fix the package to give the correct values one has only
 >  >  one option and that is to
 >  >  ignore the output from getconf all together...this removes the compiler
 >  >  warnings all together and makes shure perl5 gets build correctly on the
 >  >  solaris/opensolaris platform.
 >  >  Someone did a partial fix in the original  source code but forgot to
 >  >  finalize the last 3 entries in the script who  get  used  by  solaris 
 >  >  10  & opensolaris...so I fixed those becuase
 >  >  the warning messages emitted on opensolaris turn the whole build into a
 >  >  mess and sometimes cause the program not to build at all...Mostly a
 >  >  cosmetic fix but it also has implications
 >  >  in the build process becuase incorrect compiler directives are deduced
 >  >  witch is a bad thing ... it is not leathel in most cases that the bad
 >  >  values get used but in certain cases it makes the
 >  >  build process fail.
 >  
 >  I've seen the same when compiling perl on OpenSolaris, but I hadn't time to
 >  fix it correctly. Michael - I cannot turn on my test machine the next few
 >  days - can you please attach the work/.work.log, so that someone could take
 >  a look what fails?
 >  
 >  Thanks in advance,
 >  Jens
 >  
 >
 >   
 I will do this this weekend because at the moment I'm rebuilding my
 NetBSD gateway machine with the new pkgsrc-2009Q1 release. Tomorrow I
 will build the software on the solaris/opensolaris server's.
 I did submit the patch to you becuase I keep an archive of semi private
 patches on the gateway who sucks in the pkgsrc etc stuff and applies my
 patches if they are not yet included in the releases and then  uploads
 it to my private cvs-server who feeds my network of 30 odd machines.
 
 Michael