Re: perl5 won't build (was Re: python dumps core on current-users)

[dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>]

[ I'm not on pkgsrc-users ]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:30:52 +0200 Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:03:52PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I tried building perl5 under pkg_comp -- i.e., with a much older
> > running kernel -- and it failed.  This suggests that whatever the
> > problem is, it's not from the kernel.  (I also use amd64.)
> 
> You have (according to your pkgsrc-users mail)
>         Making x2p stuff
> You haven't done a "make depend" yet!
> *** Error code 1
> 

I believe this to be caused by 
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2008/04/25/msg005305.html :

Modified Files:
        src/bin/sh: parser.c

Log Message:
Detect unmatched quotes inside old style command substitution.
echo `"`


Coincidentally, I had the same problem building perl (without pkgsrc)
last week with a /bin/sh that also croaks on unmatched quotes inside
backticks. If you look for the string "finc" (1st or 2nd match, I don't
remember) in makedepend.SH in the perl source, you'll find the
unmatched quote somewhere in a sed command.

Kind regards
dieter