for many "core" modules, UTF-8 and Unicode bugfixes, and ithreads
bugfixes.
The major changes are in the pkgsrc infrastructure to handle Perl and
Perl modules. All pkgsrc-installed Perl modules are now installed in
"vendor" directories, and the perl interpreter has been modifed to
search for libraries in the following order: site, vendor, perl. The
Perl library is stored in a directory that is named for the Perl ABI
version associated with the Perl release, so any updates of Perl to
newer versions can be done "in-place" as long as Perl ABI version
remains the same. All Perl scripts and man pages are stored in
locations that won't conflict between site, vendor, and perl modules,
and a new utility perllink(1) now manages symlinks to those scripts
and man pages under the usual ${LOCALBASE}/bin and ${LOCALBASE}/man/man1.
PERL5_SITEPREFIX may be set to the prefix where local, site-specific
modules will be installed, e.g. PERL5_SITEPREFIX=/usr/local. Note
that modules installed here are completely unmanaged by pkgsrc.
Update the buildlink and tool dependencies on perl to require perl>=5.8.7
to reflect the new locations for Perl modules and the Perl shared
library.
we install them into a private directory under the the normal Perl
installation and configure Perl so that site-specific Perl man3 pages
are installed into a private directory within site_perl. This avoids
manpage conflicts between 3rd-party modules, the standard Perl library,
and other packages.
The changes implement some unfinished work that is alluded to in the
MakeMaker.pm module by allowing "installsiteman{1,3}dir" to be set
during the configuration process and are used to provide default values
for INSTALLSITEMAN{1,3}DIR during the Perl module build/install process.
Bump PKGREVISIONs for lang/perl5 and lang/perl58.
