| Subject: | Automatically apply build patches to old versions |
5.8.8 and older will not build out of the box on many modern systems
because of changes to GCC. This is usually solved by a patch to
makedepend.SH. That's this problem:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/225634
This means you can't build 5.8.8 with perlbrew.
It would be extremely useful if perlbrew could apply basic build fix
patches to the older versions of Perl. By default would be nice, people
are more concerned with having a working install of Perl to test against
than verifying that it doesn't build, with an option to turn it off.
Architecturally, there could be a patches/ directory parallel to perls/
which contains patches for each version. patches/perl-5.8.8/ and so on.
Perlbrew can come with the basics and users can add their own. These
would be strictly limited to fixing the build process rather than
runtime bug fixes.
To get the ball rolling, I've supplied the makedepend patch for 5.8.8.
| Subject: | perl-5.8.8-makedepend.patch |
--- a/makedepend.SH
+++ b/makedepend.SH
@@ -167,8 +167,11 @@ for file in `$cat .clist`; do
-e '/^#.*<builtin>/d' \
-e '/^#.*<built-in>/d' \
-e '/^#.*<command line>/d' \
+ -e '/^#.*<command-line>/d' \
-e '/^#.*"-"/d' \
+ -e '/^#.*"\/.*\/"/d' \
-e '/: file path prefix .* never used$/d' \
+ -e '/^#.*git_version\.h/d' \
-e 's#\.[0-9][0-9]*\.c#'"$file.c#" \
-e 's/^[ ]*#[ ]*line/#/' \
-e '/^# *[0-9][0-9]* *[".\/]/!d' \