make release failure: perl:No such file or directory

[Scott R. Sewall]

Don Lewis wrote:

>On 20 Sep, Scott R. Sewall wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having trouble running make release.  The build fails with the 
>>following message:
>>
>>    
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>>>perl @/kern/makeops.pl -c @/pci/agp_if.m
>>>perl:No such file or directory
>>>*** Error code 1
>>>
>>>Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/agp.
>>>*** Error code 1
>>>      
>>>
>>The failire occurs in stage 4: make dependencies
>>
>>When I looked for perl in the chroot environment tree, I did not find a 
>>perl executable.
>>
>>I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE cvsup'd last Sunday 9/14.
>>
>>Any ideas?
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>>
>
>Would you happen to have NOPERL set?.  There are certain things in the
>build process that require perl.  They will work if you have NOPERL set
>to skip the system perl build as long as you have perl installed as a
>port, but this won't work when 'make release' chroots.
>  
>
The line "NOPERL=yo" was added by the perl-5.6.1_13 port.

Removing that line, and the others added by the port, allowed perl to be 
installed into the
chroot environment tree by mkae release.

-- Scott