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

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Mon Dec 27 15:09:43 UTC 2010


> > > > > What concerns me is perl-threaded _is_ installed but it can't see
> > > > > it.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you have in:
> > > > 
> > > > etc/make.conf
> > > > 
> > > > PERL_THREADED=true
> > > 
> > > Perhaps I'm a little daft atm. Either way I want to be clear: Are you
> > > saying the define needs to be in the make.conf so that it will build
> > > correctly? It _does not_ actually look at what perl is installed?
> > > 
> > > IF that is the case, then wtf? Either ImageMagick should be checking
> > > the actual pkg installed, or the perl port should be defining this in
> > > the make.conf, right? Seeing as perl already makes a define in
> > > make.conf...
> > > 
> > > Meanwhile I'll check it out. Cheers
> > 
> > Yep you need that line in make.conf
> 
> Who made this claim?  This is not some standard, user-configurable
> knob -- it is only used by 5 ports, and each of them assigns a value
> to it in the port Makefile.  It shouldn't be set in make.conf.  As for
> why it isn't working in Da Rock's case, he hasn't answered any of the
> questions I asked him earlier.
> 
> b.
I suggest you see an earlier thread on same topic [ImageMagick Upgrade 
Problem].
I also wonder if the OP's ports tree is up to date.

David

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