Re: port-alpha/17926 (perl 5.6.1 test generates core dump)

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/17926; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: r.phillips%uq.edu.au@localhost, r.phillips%jkmrc.uq.edu.au@localhost
Cc: port-alpha-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-alpha/17926 (perl 5.6.1 test generates core dump)
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:58:20 +0200 (CEST)

 I have a couple of comments/questions:
 
 1) Is there a particular reason you want to use perl 5.6.1 instead of
    something a bit more modern?  Do you get the same problem if you
    try to install perl 5.8.8 or perl 5.10.0?  (I do realize the
    problem report is old, and probably neither of the two newer ones
    were available at the time, but that was then and this is now :)
 
 2) Is there a particular reason you can't use the pkgsrc package of
    perl5 instead of building this "standalone" outside pkgsrc?  Do you
    get the same problem with building if you build the pkgsrc package?
 
 My NetBSD/alpha 5.0 system has just completed a bulk pkgsrc build of
 pkgsrc-2009Q1, and as a result a binary package of perl 5.10.0nb5 is
 available from
 
   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/alpha/5.0_2009Q1/All/=
 perl-5.10.0nb5.tgz
 
 Best regards,
 
 - H=E5vard