Oh, never mind. I just re-read the thread you pointed (thanks) and saw it affects the systems *installed around the breakage date*.
UPDATING does not mention about this fact (it simply says `Building perl was broken'); perhaps it should be updated to mention the misfortune of the installed system and the link to the fix; Warner?). Thanks, Eugene On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:14:44PM -0800, Eugene M. Kim wrote: > Well, I *did* read UPDATING, and I saw the perl breakage notice. But it > seems not to be relevant to me, as my source code is current (I mean, up > to date); I cvsupped it just before starting make world. Only my host > system is built around May 1. > > Thanks, > Eugene > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:18:45PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:42:45AM -0800, Eugene M. Kim wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am getting the following error in the make depend stage; could anyone > > > shed a light? > > > > > > (The host system is 5-current as of around May 1.) > > > > >From UPDATING (you do read UPDATING, don't you?): > > > > 20010502: > > Perl breakage in 20010501 was corrected at 14:18:33 PDT. > > > > 20010501: > > Building perl was broken at 02:25:25 PDT. > > > > Please see the old HEADS UP message, which describes the fix: > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=192223+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-current/20010506.freebsd-current > > > > > Thanks, > > > Eugene > > > > > > -------------------- snip -------------------- snip -------------------- > > > ===> libperl > > > ===> miniperl > > > ===> perl > > > Extracting config.h (with variable substitutions) > > > Extracting cflags (with variable substitutions) > > > Extracting writemain (with variable substitutions) > > > Extracting myconfig (with variable substitutions) > > > Missing right curly or square bracket at lib/SelfLoader.pm line 69, at end of >line > > > syntax error at lib/SelfLoader.pm line 69, at EOF > > > Compilation failed in require at /usr/libdata/perl/BSDPAN/BSDPAN/Override.pm >line 17. > > > Compilation failed in require at /usr/libdata/perl/BSDPAN/Config.pm line 37. > > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/libdata/perl/BSDPAN/Config.pm line 37. > > > Compilation failed in require at >/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/../../../../contrib/perl5/configpm line 430. > > > *** Error code 255 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl. > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl. > > > *** Error code 255 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl. > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl. > > > -------------------- snip -------------------- snip -------------------- > > > > Cheers, > > *Anton. > > -- > > | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | > > | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_(_|| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > | +45 7021 0050 | Private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
