Re: lang/rust fails to build after upgrading Perl to 5.36

On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 1:42 PM William Bulley <web@umich.edu> wrote:

> In my attempt to upgrade to Perl 5.36 several other ports were
> affected and had to be rebuilt/reinstalled.  One of these was
> lang/rust -- which failed to build (I can send error strings).
>

If you used portmaster, there is a problem with the '-f' option. It is
unnecessary and results in re-installing many ports that do not use
libperl. lang/rust is one. Just re-enter the portmaster command without the
'-f'.
# portmaster `pkg   shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26`

The man page for portmaster(8) says that dependencies are reinstalled when
'-R' is added to '-f', but just '-f' triggers a reinstall of a port and all
of its dependency tree.

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