To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FWD: Debian's Perl installation From: Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:36:51 +1100 In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[note: I'm not top-posting here; just re-arranging some text] On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:36:51 +1100 Brendan O'Dea wrote: >In short, if you want a non-standard perl (version, ABI, whatever) >install to /usr/local. Are you saying that there is *no* way to use apt-get/dpkg whenever the user wants to use different configuration options from the ones in the Debian distribution? This is nuts! I can see how some configuration options (e.g. install directories) would be hopelessly incompatible with apt-get/dpkg, but configuration options such as -Dusethreads??? Why should that be fundamentally incompatible with apt-get/dpkg??? Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >>----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- >>Anyone know the answer to the first question? > >> bill => /home/knight/build/perl-5.8.2/perl: relocation error: >> bill => /usr/lib/perl/5.8.2/auto/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.so: undefined symbol: >> bill => Perl_Gthr_key_pt >> >> ben => Whomever installed your previous version of perl should be >> ben => shot :). >> >> bill => I guess that'd be me. My only defense is that I used >> bill => Debian's apt-get installation utility, which is entirely >> bill => hands-off (at least in my hands). As far as I can tell, >> bill => all the decisions as to where to put things are built >> bill => into the downloaded package. > >> Is this a bug in the Debian testing perl-5.8.2 distribution? > >I don't think so. You can't just rebuild perl with a different ABI, >drop it into the system and expect things not to break. > >I'm guessing that he built perl from the Debian source packages after >removing -Dusethreads from debian/config.debian, but didn't have all the >build-depends installed (libgdbm-dev specifically). If you could elaborate on this, I'd appreciate it. How can one find out what are the build-depends? Would it be enough to install these to get the (modified) Perl installation to go? kj PS: please cc me in your replies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
