svn commit: r386088 - head/databases/p5-Class-DBI-DDL

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 11 May, 2015, at 13:46, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> +--On 11 mai 2015 12:56:40 -0600 Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
> |> On 11 May, 2015, at 12:40, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> |> 
> |> Up to 5.20, Perl ships *with* Module::Build so you cannot see if a port
> |> really needs it, with some chance, it will just build. It has removed in
> |> 5.21.1, and in the upcoming 5.22, with which it was, thus, failing:
> |> 
> |> <https://pkg.absolight.fr/data/10amd64-aragorn-perl5-devel/20150511T1702
> |> 16Z/logs/errors/p5-Class-DBI-DDL-1.02_1.log>
> | 
> | Durr. Of course, that makes perfect sense.
> | 
> | I just saw that it had a Makefile.PL in addition to the Build.PL and it
> | hadn't occurred to me that the Makefile.PL configure-style would still be
> | using Module::Build.
> | 
> | I've done the same thing to a couple other ports recently, which I
> | suppose means that I busted those too. I'll go back and see if I can
> | identify them.
> 
> I don't recall having other break, so, I don't think so.
> 
> | Have we done any exp-runs recently for all p5- ports for 5.20 and 5.22 as
> | default?
> 
> An exp-run was done when I first added lang/perl5-devel, to fix things, the
> most important ones being: 
> 
>  Omitting % and @ on hash and array names is no longer permitted
> 
>    Really old Perl let you omit the @ on array names and the % on hash
>    names in some spots. This has issued a deprecation warning since Perl
>    5.0, and is no longer permitted.
> 
>  defined(@array) and defined(%hash) are now fatal errors
> 
>    These have been deprecated since v5.6.1 and have raised deprecation
>    warnings since v5.16.
> 
> 
> Now, I rebuild all p5-* ports two or three times a week with an updated
> lang/perl5-devel.  There are five ports that fail[1], the most important
> ones will hopefully before 5.22 is released in two weeks, the authors
> always do.
> 

Do we do similar with perl-5.20? I was just wondering whether there were any remaining pieces that we need to prepare for then 5.20 becomes the default.

# Adam


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