Dear fink folks, The following idea has been discussed a few time in IRC; I wanted to bring it to the mailing list for comment before implementing it.
The version of perl which ships with 10.3 was built with a different architecture flag than previous perls on OS X. Whereas the architecture flag was formerly "darwin", it is now "darwin-thread-multi-2level". This creates no problems for -pm581 packages (which have been adapted to the new flag), but our strategy for -pm packages has been to store the code directly in /sw/lib/perl5 where it can be accessed by any of the versions of perl. Some parts of a package may get stored in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin and those won't be found by the new perl. My idea for addressing this is to create a new symlink: ln -s /sw/lib/perl5/darwin /sw/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level That way, a perl built with the longer architecture flag will find things stored in /sw/lib/perl5. The question for perl gurus is: will this cause any unanticipated problems? The question for fink gurus is: how should we implement this in fink? I was thinking of possibly making this symlink a part of the fink package itself, and testing in a preinstall script to make sure there is not already a directory or a file in that location. Any alternate suggestions? Thanks, Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
