Re: pkg/31091 (perl 5.8.7 won't build with threads on 1.6.2)

[grant beattie <grant%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/31091; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: grant beattie <grant%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: jlam%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        carl%rollcage2.bl.echidna.id.au@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/31091 (perl 5.8.7 won't build with threads on 1.6.2)
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:52:28 +1100

 On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:00:04PM +0000, Carl Brewer wrote:
 
 >  > Synopsis: perl 5.8.7 won't build with threads on 1.6.2
 >  > 
 >  > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
 >  > State-Changed-By: jlam%netbsd.org@localhost
 >  > State-Changed-When: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:13:34 +0000
 >  > State-Changed-Why:
 >  > This is a problem with the perl Configure script.  It detects too late
 >  > the correct flags to link against shared libraries, and so does not
 >  > correctly link against libraries outside of system directories.  This
 >  > is probably fixed by setting ldflags correctly in the hints files, but
 >  > this will take some investigation to do so correctly.
 >  
 >  I don't have any 1.6.2 systems anymore to test this on - have moved
 >  everything to 2.1 or 3.0
 
 too easy - extract 1.6.2 sets and chroot :)