Hi, I update the help2man port recently to default to perl 5.38.
Thanks,
Kurt
> On Nov 6, 2024, at 10:19 AM, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2024, at 03:23, Maxim Abalenkov wrote:
>>
>> I recently ran into trouble with a command-line tool called ‘help2man’:
>>
>> HELP2MAN starpu_env.1
>> Encode.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake
>> key 0x10200080, needed 0xfb80080)
>>
>> I assume, this happens because I have multiple Perl installations on my
>> system: Apple’s, MacPorts’ and my own compiled from source.
>
> It should not be a problem to have as many different perls installed as you
> like; they are designed not to interfere with one another.
>
> You should file a bug report for the help2man problem you encountered,
> assuming a ticket does not already exist for this. Since it has variants for
> different perls, it should be using the perl you chose; if it doesn't, that's
> a bug.
>
>
>> When I look at all possible port variants for help2man I see:
>>
>> sudo port variants help2man
>> Password:
>> help2man has the variants:
>> perl5_28: Use MacPorts perl5.28
>> * conflicts with perl5_30 perl5_32 perl5_34 perl5_36 perl5_38
>> perl5_30: Use MacPorts perl5.30
>> * conflicts with perl5_28 perl5_32 perl5_34 perl5_36 perl5_38
>> perl5_32: Use MacPorts perl5.32
>> * conflicts with perl5_28 perl5_30 perl5_34 perl5_36 perl5_38
>> [+]perl5_34: Use MacPorts perl5.34
>> * conflicts with perl5_28 perl5_30 perl5_32 perl5_36 perl5_38
>> perl5_36: Use MacPorts perl5.36
>> * conflicts with perl5_28 perl5_30 perl5_32 perl5_34 perl5_38
>> perl5_38: Use MacPorts perl5.38
>> * conflicts with perl5_28 perl5_30 perl5_32 perl5_34 perl5_36
>> universal: Build for multiple architectures
>>
>> Would it be possible to provide another help2man variant that would use
>> perl5_40?
>>
>> This brings me to a more general question. Is one version of perl5_XY enough
>> to power all other MacPorts that depend on a Perl port or do we really need
>> perl5_34 for one port A and perl5_36 for another port B? Is it possible to
>> bring ‘law and order’ into a MacPorts installation and say: “Dear ports,
>> please use the one and only Perl port v5.40?”
>
> Ports that use perl should either depend on the perl5 port (if they don't
> care about the perl version and don't use any modules) or the perl5.34 port
> (if they require a more recent perl or they require any perl modules).
>
> We cannot move MacPorts to a newer default version of perl than 5.34 until
> someone contributes module ports for the newer perls. See
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/67830
>
> It looks like help2man depends on p5-locale-gettext and someone has already
> contributed perl 5.36 and 5.38 versions of just that module so variants for
> those versions of perl could be added to the help2man port.
>
