automake14 breakage (was: Re: Port /usr/ports/games/torcs don't find existing file)

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun May 29 11:51:19 PDT 2005


On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 05:32:48PM +0000, Christopher Nehren wrote:
> On 2005-05-28, Ion-Mihai Tetcu scribbled these
> curious markings:
> > Just seen the same error when trying to portupgrade rpm
> > However I don't see any possible related commit in the last days.
> >
> > Anyone knowing what this is about ?
> 
> Probably this in automake14/Makefile:
> 
> CONFIGURE_ENV= PERL=${PERL5}
> 
> This explicitly hardcodes the version of perl in the shebang line. This
> should probably be changed to ${PERL}, which isn't versioned. You'll
> still need to do something (portupgrade, pkgdb -F) to fix its dependency
> upon the new perl, but at least it won't be broken until you do so.

Good catch..can you please submit (with send-pr) a patch for testing?

Kris
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