After upgrading Perl, cannot reinstall modules - Cwd.so: Undefined symbol "perl_get_sv

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Saturday 26 November 2005 17:13, Mark Kane wrote:
> Hi everyone. I finally did a big portupgrade on a 4.9-RELEASE system
> today and I'm having some problems with Perl.
>
> I got it updated to 5.8.7 (was 5.6.x before), ran "use.perl port", and
> ran the perl-after-upgrade script which were all said in UPDATING. Now
> it's time to force upgrade/recompile the Perl modules for the new version.
>
> Unfortunately this is where I get stuck:
>
> xeon1# portupgrade -f p5-\*
>
> [snip]
>
> ===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 -
> found ===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7
> - found ===>  Configuring for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: Undefined symbol
> "perl_get_sv"
> *** Error code 1
> ------------------------------------
>
> The remaining Perl modules that are supposed to be upgraded/recompiled
> either error out with the same message or are skipped because one that
> it requires errored out.
>
> I tried Googling for that error, but nothing came up. Other info that
> might be useful:
>
> xeon1# pkg_which /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so
> perl-5.8.7
> -----
> xeon1# pkg_info | grep p5
> p5-Authen-SASL-2.04 Perl5 module for SASL authentication
> p5-Compress-Zlib-1.41 Perl5 interface to zlib compression library
> p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1 MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
> p5-DBI-1.38         The perl5 Database Interface.  Required for DBD::*
> modules
> p5-Digest-1.13      Modules that calculate message digests
> p5-Digest-MD5-2.27  Perl5 interface to the MD5 algorithm
> p5-HTML-Parser-3.31 Perl5 module for parse HTML tag
> p5-HTML-Tagset-3.03 Some useful data table in parsing HTML
> p5-MIME-Base64-2.20 Perl5 module for Base64 and Quoted-Printable encodings
> p5-Net-1.16,1       Perl5 modules to access and use network protocols
> p5-URI-1.25         Perl5 interface to Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
> refere
> p5-libvorbis-0.04   Perl extension for Ogg Vorbis streams
> p5-libwww-5.69      Perl5 library for WWW access
> -----
>
> Thanks very much in advance as this is a production server which uses
> Perl all the time.
>
> -Mark
> FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386

On a 4.11 system sysutils/portmanager has no problem with perl5.8 and 
www/p5-HTML-Tagset, just tested it, not sure if it will run on 4.9 but you
you may want to give it a try.

-Mike