ports/183305: some perl5 modules with .xs components fail to install/package

[Sunpoet Hsieh]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Zverev Andrey <azverev at ozon.ru> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR ports/183305; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
>
> From: Zverev Andrey <azverev at ozon.ru>
> To: "bug-followup at FreeBSD.org" <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>,
>         "papowell at astart.com" <papowell at astart.com>
> Cc: "sunpoet at freebsd.org" <sunpoet at freebsd.org>, "perl at freebsd.org"
>         <perl at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: ports/183305: some perl5 modules with .xs components fail to
>  install/package
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:25:48 +0000
>
>  I think this can be related to latest ExtUtils::MakeMaker update.
>  In changelog (but it can be unrelated):
>
>  6.79_03 Fri Oct 11 13:56:53 BST 2013
>      Bug fixes:
>      * don't copy .bs portably :)
>
>  6.79_02 Fri Oct 11 12:58:01 BST 2013
>      Bug fixes:
>      * RT#28992 don't copy .bs files if they are empty
>
>
>  sunpoet@ can you look at this? Since old EU::MM allow empty and new one
> don=
>  't. And we have EU::MM in core and in ports.
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Core EU::MM are not affected.
Only few (<20) ports depend on devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.
It only affects users with devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker 6.80 installed.
I've made an ugly patch [1] to solve this issue (and not to touch other
p5-* PLISTs).

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~sunpoet/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.patch

Regards,
sunpoet