mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

[Jon Theil Nielsen]

2010/8/2 Morgan Wesström <freebsd-questions at pp.dyndns.biz>

> On 2010-08-02 10:49, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote:
> > 2010/8/2 Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Hi list
> >>
> >> After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore.
> The
> >> error message is:
> >>
> >> Bareword "P_DETACH" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at
> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/MRTG_lib.pm line 1172.
> >> Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89.
> >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89.
> >>
> >> I filled a PR on this but haven't seen any answers/solutions:
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148914
> >>
> >> Am I the only one having this problem?
> >>
> >> If the port needs upgrading (as suggested in my PR), but this does not
> >> happen, how can I fix it myself?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Jon
> >> --
> >> Jon Theil Nielsen
> >>
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Hope I'm not beeing a pain...
> >
> > But I wolud really like to hearing from *anyone* who has upgradeded perl
> and
> > has mrtg installed. Even if is working whtout problems. So, at least, I
> know
> > that I have to look for a specific problem on my own server.
> > I forgot to mention that I'm running 8.1 Stable.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jon
> >
>
> Hi Jon. You're not alone. :-)
>
> I ran into the same issue and it has also been reported on Gentoo (which
> I use too). The solution is mrtg 2.16.4 and until the ports tree is
> updated there's a patch here you can apply manually which worked for me:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/149016
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>

Hi  Morgan,

Thanks a lot! I'll try it out as soon as possible. If it worked for you, I
guess it will work for me too.
Strange, though, that so few people report this problem. Maybe they just
live happily with the "old" perl version. :-)

Regards,
Jon
-- 
Jon Theil Nielsen