ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Tue Dec 28 11:55:41 UTC 2010


> > > On 12/27/10, David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
> > > >> On 12/27/10, David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
> > > > Agreed - but  following Doug's  commit I can vouch that the
> > > > PERL_THREADED hack
> > > > was still needed  for 7.2 p3 systems on amd64.
> > > 
> > > It shouldn't be needed.  Can you remove this definition from any
> > > locally-modified Makefiles, and provide the same information that was
> > > requested from Da Rock? (Why do I feel like a WWE announcer when I
> > > type that? ...)
> > > 
> > > b.
> > 
> > I do not want to rebuild WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PERL on a running system
> > with active user access which needs perl.
> > 
> > Have you got the replies from Da Rock?
> 
> Before going any further I would suggest that Da Rock  be advised to update
> his ports tree followed by
> 
> # pkgdb -F
> Fix any problems then. If there are any problems he cannot fix at this
> stage then report those. Then:
> 
> # portmaster -a or portupgrade -a
> 
> 
> If he gets any failure which may possibly be linked to a Perl problem he
> should rebuild perl with upward and downward recursion. e.g
> #portupgrade -rR lang/perl5.8
> 
> Until that is completed any other report could send us off on a wild goose
> chase.
> 
> My twopennorth
> 
 I can do what you suggested when we have a report from Da Rock with his 
results from a system with thoroughly updated ports. My guess is that his 
probs will be solved by the above.

David


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