ports/144204: mail/mailagent is not compatible with perl 5.10

Mon Feb 22 10:10:05 UTC 2010

>Number:         144204
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       mail/mailagent is not compatible with perl 5.10
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 22 10:10:04 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Yoshiaki Kasahara
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 amd64
>Organization:
Kyushu University
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD elvenbow.cc.kyushu-u.ac.jp 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #4: Wed Dec 16 15:49:14 JST 2009 root at elvenbow.cc.kyushu-u.ac.jp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

>Description:

mailagent-3.0.73 is not compatible with perl 5.10 due to the removal of '$*'.

>How-To-Repeat:

Just try to build mail/mailagent on a machine with perl 5.10 installed.
The test will always fail.

Making all in agent/test...
The following may take a while...
Don't panic if any of these tests fails and do not stop make.
basic/config.....ok
basic/filter.....ok
basic/mailagent..FAILED (10 tests: 6,7,8,9,13,14,15,16,17,25)
Failed a basic test, cannot continue.
Failure detected, retrying one more time, just in case...
Successful tests will not be rerun but flagged as 'done'.
basic/config.....done
basic/filter.....done
basic/mailagent..FAILED (10 tests: 6,7,8,9,13,14,15,16,17,25)
Failed a basic test, cannot continue.
Hmm... Still failed... There might be a real problem.
I shall be using the plain (non dataloaded) version.
basic/config.....done
basic/filter.....done
basic/mailagent..FAILED (10 tests: 6,7,8,9,13,14,15,16,17,25)
Failed a basic test, cannot continue.
Making all in agent/examples...

>Fix:

There is a new version of mailagent (3.1) which is compatible with perl 5.10.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailagent/

I tried to build this (revision 65) with perl 5.10, and all the test passed
except misc/compress.
It seems an upstream bug trying to test removed 'compress' comptag in
agent/pl/compress.pl. 
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