Re: pkg/54475: sysutils/libgtop build error

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/54475; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/54475: sysutils/libgtop build error
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:16:33 -0400

 Yes, as of Perl 5.30, it's no longer permitted to set $[ to a non-zero
 value, so that script breaks. The bigger question is: this package is
 at version 2.40 upstream, and there's a 2.34 version in pkgsrc-wip. I'm
 not familiar with why pkgsrc has kept it at version 2.28.4. Perhaps
 there's a specific reason. If so, lib.pl will need to be converted to
 use zero-based indexing throughout.
 
 Dave