ports/79397: news/inn fails to build nnrpd under RELEASE-4.11 and perl v5.8.6

[Anton Berezin]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:21:51AM -0400, c0ldbyte wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
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> >Hello!
> >
> >I've tried to install fresh 4.11-RELEASE, lang/perl5, use.perl port - 
> >similar problem, news/inn can't buld nnrpd:
> >
> >cc -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib   -o nnrpd article.o cache.o group.o 
> >commands.o line.o list.o misc.o newnews.o nnrpd.o perl.o perm.o post.o 
> >python.o sasl_config.o tls.o track.o 
> >/usr/ports/news/inn/work/inn-2.4.1/history/libinnhist.a 
> >/usr/ports/news/inn/work/inn-2.4.1/storage/libstorage.a 
> >/usr/ports/news/inn/work/inn-2.4.1/lib/libinn.a   -L/usr/lib -lssl 
> >-lcrypto /usr/ports/news/inn/work/inn-2.4.1/lib/perl.o 
> >-Wl,-R/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2/mach/CORE -Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib 
> >/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2/mach/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a 
> >-L/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2/mach/CORE -lperl -lm -lcrypt -lutil
> >/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2/mach/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a(DynaLoader.o): 
> >In function `SaveError':
> >DynaLoader.o(.text+0x1a6): undefined reference to `Perl_vmess'
> >gmake[1]: *** [nnrpd] Error 1
> >
> >So it looks that neither perl 5.6 nor perl 5.8 can't be used together
> >with inn under 4.11-RELEASE. Pretty weird ;(
> >
> >Sincerely, Dmitry
> >
> 
> Yeah its been that way for quite a while. The INN-2.4.2 source has been
> out for a quite a while now and not updated in the ports and Ive just been
> patiently waiting for it just for thought of it might fix some of the
> things that has it going bad right now. INN-CURRENT compiles fine and if
> Im correct that was one I tried before the release of 2.4.2 SO! hopefully
> we will some something soon in the effect of a fix & a update.

Please see a recent update of exim for a fix hint.  Briefly: for correct
perl embedding -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib/perl5/${PERL_VERSION}/mach/CORE is
necessary, but -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib above leads to the final
rpath being

   /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/perl5/${PERL_VERSION}/mach/CORE

So libperl.so from the base system perl gets picked first.  Even when
-rpath gets moved after -Wl,-R..., the problem still remains, since
-rpath takes precedence.  The proper fix will mean both moving -rpath
further in the line _and_ replacing it with -Wl,-rpath, so they get the
same precedence.

\Anton.
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