we don't want it to find. The usual buildlink techniques don't work
here since the Configure script uses a file existence test instead of
a linker test to see if the library exists. For each operating system
that we support in pkgsrc, there should be corresponding
LIBSWANTED.${OPSYS} and SYSLIBPATH.${OPSYS} definitions in the Perl
package Makefiles to ensure we only get what we ask for.
In this particular case, add the appropriate definitions for OpenBSD
so that we don't pick up random libraries that may also be installed
on the system.
Before, we were possibly using the values gleaned from a pre-existing
perl binary via perl5/vars.mk (pulled in by bsd.pkg.use.mk), which
would lead to the new perl using the pre-existing perl's version-specific
libraries. Bump the PKGREVISION of lang/perl5 to 11 and lang/perl58
to 4.
PR pkg/28963 with minor modifications by me. Also teach all of the
BSDs (and Interix) to pass the rpath to libperl.so if a module needs
to link with libperl.so when built with MakeMaker.pm. Bump the
PKGREVISION to 2.
include:
* By default, platforms that have native threads will build a threaded
perl. Note that you will likely have to rebuild your Perl modules
after this update unless your Perl is already threaded.
* The perl interpreter is now more tolerant of UTF-16-encoded scripts.
* Several core modules were updated.
* Perl has a new -dt command-line flag, which enables threads support in
the debugger.
* "foreach" on threads::shared array used to be able to crash Perl. This
bug has now been fixed.
* A regexp in "STDOUT"'s destructor used to coredump, because the regexp
pad was already freed. This has been fixed.
* Using "delete" on an array no longer leaks memory. A "pop" of an item
from a shared array reference no longer causes a leak.
* "eval_sv()" failing a taint test could corrupt the stack - this has
been fixed.
* On platforms with 64 bit pointers numeric comparison operators used to
erroneously compare the addresses of references that are overloaded,
rather than using the overloaded values. This has been fixed.
* From now on all applications embedding perl will behave as if perl were
compiled with -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV.
Build Perl without threads-support until VAX native threads are known
to work. The hack was added to the Makefile instead of to hacks.mk
since it sets a variable which is used within the package Makefile.
the tz* related variables are initialized when it is invoked. In
fact, Solaris does do this while NetBSD 2.0 does not. Explicitly call
tzset() before calling localtime_r() to initialize the local timezone
data. This fixes the output of:
perl -e '$t = localtime($^T); print "$t\n";' ; date
to always print the time in the local timezone twice instead of the
first time in UTC and the second in the local timezone. Bump the
PKGREVISION.
the test for integer.pm (pkg/28498). Until this is fixed in either
NetBSD, GCC or perl, strip out -mieee from the compiler command line.
This "fixes" pkg/28498.
it tries to interpret it as a number, which causes an FP exception.
Fix this by replacing "NaN" with "*NaN*" which hides the problem.
This makes perl Configure and build correctly on NetBSD-2.0/vax. Fix
provided by John Klos in private email.
the PLIST and use custom post-install code instead. This avoids
needing to guess at the correct value PERL5_ARCHLIB before perl has
been configured and built. This should fix PR pkg/28433.
If we include pthread.buildlink3.mk, then build with Perl ithreads
support. Bump the PKGREVISION.
Nuke the perl58-thread package. The perl package can now be forcibly
built with thread support by setting PERL5_USE_THREADS to "yes".
generated by the hints file and invoked from within the Configure
script. This "pkgsrc.cbu" script is called after all other call-back
scripts are called, so it's the last to modify ldflags and lddlflags.
This should fix builds on non-NetBSD platforms.
Perl-5.8.x and up are supposed to properly support pthreads if they're
available. The GNU pth support isn't quite there yet, so we can't build
with thread support on all platforms.
executable. Until someone produces benchmarks that show that this
actually makes a difference, this is just added complexity with no
measurable benefit. Bump the PKGREVISION.
Incompatible Changes
There are no changes incompatible with 5.8.4.
Core Enhancements
Perl's regular expression engine now contains support for matching on the intersection of two Unicode character classes. You can also now refer to user-defined character classes from within other user defined character classes.
Modules and Pragmata
* Carp improved to work nicely with Safe. Carp's message reporting should now be anomaly free - it will always print out line number information.
* CGI upgraded to version 3.05
* charnames now avoids clobbering $_
* Digest upgraded to version 1.08
* Encode upgraded to version 2.01
* FileCache upgraded to version 1.04
* libnet upgraded to version 1.19
* Pod::Parser upgraded to version 1.28
* Pod::Perldoc upgraded to version 3.13
* Pod::LaTeX upgraded to version 0.57
* Safe now works properly with Carp
* Scalar-List-Utils upgraded to version 1.14
* Shell's documentation has been re-written, and its historical partial auto-quoting of command arguments can now be disabled.
* Test upgraded to version 1.25
* Test::Harness upgraded to version 2.42
* Time::Local upgraded to version 1.10
* Unicode::Collate upgraded to version 0.40
* Unicode::Normalize upgraded to version 0.30
Utility Changes
Perl's debugger
The debugger can now emulate stepping backwards, by restarting and rerunning all bar the last command from a saved command history.
h2ph
h2ph is now able to understand a very limited set of C inline functions -- basically, the inline functions that look like CPP macros. This has been introduced to deal with some of the headers of the newest versions of the glibc. The standard warning still applies; to quote h2ph's documentation, you may need to dicker with the files produced.
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Perl 5.8.5 should build cleanly from source on LynxOS.
Selected Bug Fixes
* The in-place sort optimisation introduced in 5.8.4 had a bug. For example, in code such as
@a = sort ($b, @a)
the result would omit the value $b. This is now fixed.
* The optimisation for unnecessary assignments introduced in 5.8.4 could give spurious warnings. This has been fixed.
* Perl should now correctly detect and read BOM-marked and (BOMless) UTF-16 scripts of either endianness.
* Creating a new thread when weak references exist was buggy, and would often cause warnings at interpreter destruction time. The known bug is now fixed.
* Several obscure bugs involving manipulating Unicode strings with substr have been fixed.
* Previously if Perl's file globbing function encountered a directory that it did not have permission to open it would return immediately, leading to unexpected truncation of the list of results. This has been fixed, to be consistent with Unix shells' globbing behaviour.
* Thread creation time could vary wildly between identical runs. This was caused by a poor hashing algorithm in the thread cloning routines, which has now been fixed.
* The internals of the ithreads implementation were not checking if OS-level thread creation had failed. threads->create() now returns undef in if thead creation fails instead of crashing perl.
New or Changed Diagnostics
* Perl -V has several improvements
o correctly outputs local patch names that contain embedded code snippets or other characters that used to confuse it.
o arguments to -V that look like regexps will give multiple lines of output.
o a trailing colon suppresses the linefeed and ';' terminator, allowing embedding of queries into shell commands.
o a leading colon removes the 'name=' part of the response, allowing mapping to any name.
* When perl fails to find the specified script, it now outputs a second line suggesting that the user use the -S flag:
$ perl5.8.5 missing.pl
Can't open perl script "missing.pl": No such file or directory.
Use -S to search $PATH for it.
Changed Internals
The Unicode character class files used by the regular expression engine are now built at build time from the supplied Unicode consortium data files, instead of being shipped prebuilt. This makes the compressed Perl source tarball about 200K smaller. A side effect is that the layout of files inside lib/unicore has changed.
pkgsrc: fails the same test that 5.8.4 fails (sigaction).
which are the full option names used to set rpath directives for the
linker and the compiler, respectively. In places were we are invoking
the linker, use "${LINKER_RPATH_FLAG} <path>", where the space is
inserted in case the flag is a word, e.g. -rpath. The default values
of *_RPATH_FLAG are set by the compiler/*.mk files, depending on the
compiler that you use. They may be overridden on a ${OPSYS}-specific
basis by setting _OPSYS_LINKER_RPATH_FLAG and _OPSYS_COMPILER_RPATH_FLAG,
respectively. Garbage-collect _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME and _COMPILER_LD_FLAG.
On >= NetBSD 2.0, if PERL5_USE_THREADS is _not_ defined, add pthread to libs.
This does not make perl threaded, but permits it to link against libraries
which are. This makes p5-GD (which pulls in threaded freetype) work again.
Georg Schwarz in PR pkg/25057:
- check for PKGSRC_COMPILER instead of USE_MIPSPRO:
USE_MIPSPRO would imply the former, but not the other way around.
That is, it's conceivable to have a system that has PKGSRC_COMPILER
set (to mipspro), but not USE_MIPSPRO.
- Allow passing of -Duse64bitint if ABI == 64 even if the compiler is not
mipspro. (Note: we could test this on a non-IRIX 64bit platform by
setting ABI to '64'. I think that should work, too, but I can't test
that right now.)
