ports/51353: failed to build ports/lang/perl-5.8

[Anton Berezin]

The following reply was made to PR ports/51353; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Anton Berezin <tobez at tobez.org>
To: Frank Altpeter <frank at altpeter.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/51353: failed to build ports/lang/perl-5.8
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:02:32 +0200

 Frank,
 
 On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:50:16PM +0200, Frank Altpeter wrote:
 > You wrote on 2003-04-24 16:45:53 +0200:
 > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:41:30PM +0200, Frank Altpeter wrote:
 > > > You wrote on 2003-04-24 16:36:45 +0200:
 > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:22:27PM +0200, Frank Altpeter wrote:
 > > > > 
 > > > > > >Number:         51353
 > > > > > >Category:       ports
 > > > > > >Synopsis:       failed to build ports/lang/perl-5.8
 > > > > 
 > > > > > >Description:
 > > > > > The Digest::MD5 part of the perl-5.8 port fails to build.
 > > > > 
 > > > > Frank, would you please tell me, for the reference, the PORTREVISION of
 > > > > the lang/perl5.8 port you are trying to build?
 > > > Oh, of course yes... it's revision 5, fetched via cvsup today
 > > > morning at Thu Apr 24 08:00:00 CEST 2003
 > > 
 > > Thanks.  One more question: do you happen to have patchlevel.h in
 > > /usr/include or in /usr/local/include?  If yes, what does it contain and
 > > what package/port did it come from?
 
 > /usr/local/include/patchlevel.h:
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > #define PATCHLEVEL  0
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > root at murphy:~ 0# pkg_info -W /usr/local/include/patchlevel.h 
 > root at murphy:~ 0# 
 > 
 > Hmmm... none ... that's strange, isn't it?
 
 Well, yeah.  I remember this file was popping into the picture before,
 but I forgot what port was the culprit.  On the other hand, I do
 believe, that the troublesome port was fixed and does not install
 patchlevel.h any more.  So in your case, I think, it is a leftover from
 some old package which is no longer listed in /var/db/pkg.
 
 Aaaaaaaanyway, I would suggest you to rm it and then to rebuild
 lang/perl5.8 - doing make clean in there first.
 
 This should help.  Please tell me whether it did, so I can close the PR.
 
 %Anton.
 -- 
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