Re: perl v5.42 segfault

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 04:25:09AM +0100, James Cook wrote:
> I just submitted a pkgsrc patch at https://gnats.netbsd.org/59831 .

Thank you, this patch worked for me and I've committed it.

> (I forgot to bump PKGREVISION in that patch, but I don't know how to
> comment on the gnats report now that I've submitted it.)

Just send an email to gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost with 'PR 59831' at the
start of the subject line and it should end up in the right place.

> The perl I built with that patch is kind of broken, but I think that's
> unrelated, because even before patching it, my attempts to build perl
> from pkgsrc haven't really worked: see my post from earlier this year
> at https://marc.info/?l=pkgsrc-users&m=174848776417600&w=2
> (Summary: I am getting 'Shared object "libperl.so" not found' errors.)

I haven't seen this one.  Perhaps the rpath is not set correctly when
PREFIX is not /usr/pkg, i.e. /usr/pkg/ is hardcoded somewhere.

Cheers,
 Thomas