perl5.8 5.8.9_3 lang =554

Practical Extraction and Report Language
Maintained by: skv@FreeBSD.org
Port Added: 21 Jul 2002 18:20:06
Also Listed In: devel perl5

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Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and
shell.  See the manual page for more hype.  There are also many books
published by O'Reilly & Assoc.  See pod/perlbook.pod for more
information.

WWW: http://www.perl.org/

- MarkM

CVSWeb : Sources : Main Web Site : Distfiles Availability : PortsMon

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r perl

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Configuration Options

===> The following configuration options are available for perl-5.8.9_3:
     DEBUGGING=off (default) "Build with debugging support"
     GDBM=off (default) "Build GDBM_File extension"
     PERL_MALLOC=on (default) "Use Perl malloc"
     PERL_64BITINT=on (default) "Use 64 bit integers (on i386)"
     THREADS=off (default) "Build threaded perl"
     SUIDPERL=off (default) "Build set-user-id suidperl binary"
     SITECUSTOMIZE=off (default) "Run-time customization of @INC"
     USE_PERL=on (default) "Rewrite links in /usr/bin"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

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Master Sites:

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

http://www.cpan.dk/modules/by-module/../../src/

http://ring.nict.go.jp/archives/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

http://ring.k-opti.com/archives/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

http://ring.riken.jp/archives/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.isu.net.sa/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://cpan.pop-mg.com.br/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

http://at.cpan.org/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/

http://backpan.cpan.org/modules/by-module/../../src/

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/perl/

• 2010-02-05

  Affects: users of lang/perl*

  Author: skv@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    Change the default version of Perl to 5.10.
  
    If you have already installed lang/perl5.8 and
    want switch to lang/perl5.10 please follow instructions
    in the entry 20090328 in this file.
  
  



• 2009-03-28

  Affects: users of lang/perl*

  Author: skv@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    lang/perl5.10 is out. If you want to switch to it from, for example
    lang/perl5.8, that is:
  
    Portupgrade users:
      0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety):
  	pkgdb -Ff
  
      1) Reinstall perl with new 5.10:
  	portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.\*
  
      2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl:
  	portupgrade -fr perl
  
    Portmaster users:
  	portmaster -o lang/perl5.10 lang/perl5.8
  	portmaster -r perl-
  
    Note: If the "perl-" glob matches  more than one port you will need to
  	specify the name of the perl directory in /var/db/pkg explicitly.
  
  



• 2009-01-13

  Affects: users of lang/perl5.8

  Author: skv@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.9.  You should update everything
    that depends on perl.  The easiest way to do that is to use
    perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8.  Please see its
    manual page for details.
  
  



• 2006-02-20

  Affects: users of lang/perl5.8

  Author: tobez@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.8. You should update everything
    depending on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use
    perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8. Please see
    its manual page for details.
  
  



• 2005-06-24

  Affects: users of lang/perl5.8

  Author: tobez@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.7. You should update everything
    depending on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use
    perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8. Please see
    its manual page for details.
  
  



• 2005-02-01

  Affects: users of lang/perl5 and lang/perl5.8

  Author: tobez@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    lang/perl5 has been updated to 5.6.2, and lang/perl5.8 has been
    updated to 5.8.6. You should update everything depending on perl, that
    is:
  
      * first, upgrade your perl installation (use either lang/perl5 or
        lang/perl5.8, the latter being recommended);
      * for FreeBSD 4.X, run "use.perl port", so that the system knows you
        have 5.8.6 or 5.6.2; this step is not needed on FreeBSD 5.X and
        FreeBSD -CURRENT;
      * run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on perl,
        that is run something like:
        portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5\* | tail +4; \
  	find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.[68].[1245] -type f -print0 \
  	| xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //') | sort -u`
        This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them
        afterwards by hand.
  
  



• 2004-07-30

  Affects: users of lang/perl5.8

  Author: tobez@FreeBSD.org, mat@FreeBSD.org, marcus@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.5. You should update everything
    depending on perl, that is:
  
      * first, upgrade your perl5.8 installation.
      * run "use.perl port", so that the system knows you have 5.8.5.
      * now, run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on perl,
        that is run something like:
        portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5 | tail +4; \
  	find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.[124] -type f -print0 \
  	| xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //') | sort -u`
        This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them
        afterwards.
        Please note, that this last step is, strictly speaking, not necessary,
        if you are upgrading from 5.8.4. But it is cleaner to do so anyway.
  
  



• 2004-05-31

  Affects: users of lang/perl5.8

  Author: mat@FreeBSD.org, marcus@FreeBSD.org

  Reason: 
    lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.4. you should update everything
    depending on perl, that is:
  
      * first, upgrade your perl5.8 installation.
      * run "use.perl port", so that the system knows you have 5.8.4.
      * now, run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on perl,
        that is run something like:
        portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5.8.4 | tail +4; \
  	find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 -type f -print0 \
  	| xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //') | sort -u`
        This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them
        afterwards.
  
  

Change default Perl version to 5.10.

Approved by:    portmgr (pav)

Fix script "use.perl": correctly check variables 'need_*'.

Submitted by:   Artis Caune <artis.caune xx gmail.com>

- Fix behaviour of USE_PERL option when it is "off"
- Add PORTSCOUT variable

- Really is MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE

Reported by:    pointyhat

- Add more essential bugfixes
- Add perl-threaded-5.* to CONFLICTS [1]
- Introduce PERL_VENDOR_PREFIX variable
- Be really PREFIX-neutral [2}

Submitted by:   lth [1], rafan [2]

Add MAKE_JOBS_SAFE variable.

PR:             ports/132964
Submitted by:   mm

Update "perl-after-upgrade": set correct perl package name in @pkgdep.

Fix PORTVERSION.

Remove variable PERL_VER from the ports tree at all - because
it is obsolete since Perl 5.6.0.

Update BSDPAN:
- fix pkgdb/+* files creation
- add lang/perl5.X as package dependency (via @pkgdep line)

Fix install of BSDPAN (BSDPAN_WRKSRC) and unbreak.

Submitted by:   Vladimir Timofeev <vovkasm@gmail.com>
Prompted by:    QAT on-commit run
Pointyhat to:   skv@

* Fix suidperl functionality. [1]
* Update BSDPAN.

PR:             ports/131434 [1]
Submitted by:   William Olson <wolson xx gmail.com> [1]

Add "regression-test" make target.

Unbreak build of threaded perl.

PR:             ports/130529
Submitted by:   Shin-ichi Yoshimoto <yosimoto xx waishi.jp>

Update to 5.8.9

Also:

- add option SITECUSTOMIZE which enable -Dusesitecustomize [1]

- add patch against sv_dup() bug causes memory corruption in threaded perl [2]

Changes:        http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.9/pod/perl589delta.pod
PR:             111120 [1], 130033 [2]
Submitted by:   "Ian A. Tegebo" <yontege xx dev-mug.rescomp.berkeley.edu> [1],
                kevin brintnall <kbrint xx rufus.net> [2]

- Remove conditional checks for FreeBSD 5.x and older

- Take maintainership [1]
- Use OPTIONS
- Add CONFLICTS
- Use "pre-su-install" (for rootless builds)

Approved by:    tobez (previous maintainer) [1]

- Take advantage of CPAN macro from bsd.sites.mk, change
${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN} to CPAN.

PR:             ports/122674
Submitted by:   Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
Reworked by:    araujo (myself)
Approved by:    portmgr (pav)

Fix a possible buffer overflow with ASCII regexes that really are
Unicode regexes.

Obtained from:  perl5-porters (Nicholas Clark), with modifications
Approved by:    portmgr (marcus)

Remove support for OSVERSION < 5

Welcome bsd.perl.mk.  Add support for constructs such as USE_PERL5=5.8.0+.
Drop support for antique perl.

Work done by:   gabor
Sponsored by:   Google Summer of Code 2007
Hat:            portmgr

- Remove the DESTDIR modifications from individual ports as we have a new,
  fully chrooted DESTDIR, which does not need such any more.

Sponsored by:   Google Summer of Code 2007
Approved by:    portmgr (pav)

Filter out <command-line> from preprocessor output in makedepend.SH
to fix build with GCC 4.2.0.

1. Fix breakage due to incorrect objformat-related change.
2. While at it, add a WITHOUT_USE_PERL knob that avoids spamming
/usr/bin; it is meant for those who do cross-installs and such.

No version bump.

Pointy hat to:  kris [1]
Reported by:    many [1]
PR:             104524 [2]
Submitted by:   Nick Hibma <nick@anywi.com> [2]

Default to elf instead of a.out.

Add support for DESTDIR part I.

This commit should largele be a NOOP as it only adds support
for DESTDIR undefined. This does allow us to start testing
ports with DESTDIR set, but this is as of yet not supported.

Although this has been extensively tested on pointyhat, this
is a very intrusive change and some cases may have been
overlooked. Please contact Gabor and me if you find any.

PR:             100555
Submitted by:   gabor
Sponsored by:   Google Summer of Code 2006

Fix rebuild-xs target.  No PORTREVISION bump since plist is not
affected.

Submitted by:   skv

Upgrade to 5.8.8.

Also:
Do not strip when built with -DWITH_DEBUGGING. [1]
Do not build non-threaded perl with -pthread. [2]
Add rebuild-xs target which should be used when
perl-after-upgrade does not do its job adequately. [3]
Fix perl-after-upgrade to handle threaded perl. [4]

Submitted by:   John Narron <jnarron@cdsinet.net> [2],
                Sergey Prikhodko <sergey@network-asp.biz> [4],
                parv@pair.com [1],
                pavel@ctk.ru [2],
                skv [3],
                vasilis <vasilis@karkampounas.gr> [2]
PR:     83223 [4], 83767 [2], 84255 [2], 89443 [1], 90832 [2]

Replace ugly "@unexec rmdir %D... 2>/dev/null || true" with @dirrmtry

Approved by:    krion@
PR:             ports/88711 (related)

Move path to BSDPAN ahead of the path to site_perl.  This makes BSDPAN
work when devel/p5-ExtUtils/MakeMaker is installed.

This, again, is a minor change, which does not require re-installation
of the dependant packages.

Reported by:    lth

Patch for CVE-2005-3962 (fixes for sprintf formatting issues).
Bump PORTREVISION.

This revision is compatible with the previous one, so no need to rebuild
dependant ports.

Don't use "." in MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR; it only applies to URLs with
 %SUBDIR% in them, and the site that needed the "." doesn't.

Approved by:    Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> (MAINTAINER)

Fix PATCH_SITES

Indulged by:    tobez

Upgrade to 5.8.7.  In addition:

    - add perl-after-upgrade utility to move around
      dependent packages
    - fix $0 expansion in use.perl [1]
    - enable threaded perl on amd64 [2]
    - always compile perl with -pthread [3]
    - fix errno issue in SDBM_File [4]
    - add support for // and err (defined-or) [5]
    - add WITH_DEBUGGING option [6]
    - fix suidperl symlink [7]
    - fix several small bugs in use.perl
    - print possible WITH_XXX flags (no OPTIONS support yet)

[1] Submitted by:       erwin, Niël Dogger <niel@introweb.nl>
[2] Nudged by:          Mike Schroll <FreeBSD@LogicX.us>
[3] Nudged by:          skv
[4] perl bug #35938
[5] Obtained from:      H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
[6] PR: 78811, submitted by:    skv
[7] PR: 80069, submitted by:    Sergey N. Voronkov <serg@tmn.ru>
    A different solution was actually implemented.

Fix LATEST_LINK issues.

Nudged by:      krion

If one of locale-related variables set to a bad value in the user's
environment (like da_DK.ISO_8859-15 as opposed to da_DK.ISO8859-15 on
-CURRENT), perl ports cannot be built.  While this condition clearly is
an operator error, it is still no excuse for the build failure.

Fix that by cleaning locale-related variables for configure and build
steps.  No plist changes, no portrevision bump.

Reported by:    Flemming Jacobsen <fj quite-at batmule maybe-dot dk>

Fix vulnerability in suidperl/sperl [CAN-2005-0155].
Fix buffer overflow in perl [CAN-2005-0156].
Bump PORTREVISION.
Upgrade from previous versions/revisions of lang/perl5.8 is recommended.

Submitted by:   Nicholas Clark <nick $at$ ccl4 org>

Update bsd.port.mk's notion of the perl version (to 5.8.6) [1].
Use more correct OSVERSION threshold to distinguish between
base system perl and perl from ports - the right value is 500036 [1].

Also, simplify OSVERSION-related logic in lang/perl5 and lang/perl5.8.
Now it goes as follows:

- for lang/perl5.8, if there is perl in the base system, install
  use.perl script, use a helpful pkg-message, and do not automatically
  update symlinks;
- for lang/perl5.8, if there is no perl in the base system, do not
  install use.perl script, and update symlinks automatically;
- for lang/perl5, always install use.perl;
- for lang/perl5, never update symlinks automatically;
- for lang/perl5, vary produced pkg-message depending on the presence of
  the base system perl.

Bump PORTREVISION for both lang/perl5 and lang/perl5.8.

[1] Approved by:        portmgr

Update to 5.8.6.  Also:

- redirect output from h2ph to /dev/null [1];
- fix File::Path insecure file/directory permissions [2];
  this resolves CAN-2004-0452
  (http://vuxml.freebsd.org/c418d472-6bd1-11d9-93ca-000a95bc6fae.html);
- for OSVERSION < 500036, create symlinks in /usr/bin not only for
  perl and suidperl, but also for a2p, c2ph, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs,
  perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man,
  pod2text, s2p, and splain;  perl and suidperl are still enough for
  more recent FreeBSD versions [3];
- clean up created symlinks upon deinstallation [4];
- try to cleanup symlinks created by older versions of lang/perl5 and
  lang/perl5.8, during both installation and deinstallation [5];
- added support for DISABLE_BSDPAN environment variable [6];

- Create PREFIX/SITE_PERL/PERL_ARCH/auto dirrectory on install

Pointed out by: kris
Approved by:    tobez

Update to 5.8.5.

Add a knob WITHOUT_PERL_64BITINT.  This is primarily intended for those
who wish to keep compatibility with files generated by Storable::store
from a previous version of perl, and were unlucky enough to not use
portable Storable::nstore instead.

Submitted by:   kuriyama

1. Update to 5.8.4.
2. Make this port respect Makefile.local.
3. Transfer manpages to Makefile.man.
4. Move manpages for modules, included into distribution, into
   lib/perl5/PERL_VER/perl/man/man3, to eliminate file conflicts
   with p5 ports for modules included with perl.
5. Use PREFIX/SITE_PERL_REL instead of SITE_PERL in the Makefile.
6. Switch to bzipped sources.
7. Other small adjustments.

PR:     65925, 66096, 67205

Submitted by:   foxfair (1), Charles Swiger <chuck@pkix.net> (1), krion (3)
Reported by:    Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk> (2)

SIZEify (maintainer timeout)

Respect OSVERSION in the pkg-install script.  This allows package building
tinderboxes to do the righ thing reagrding Perl in a chroot/jail environment
regardless of the underlying host OS version.

Approved by:    perl (tobez)

Fix the perl builds.

Fix "pkg_add -r perl" for 5.2-CURRENT (and later).  This will now install
perl 5.8 for 5.2-CURRENT.

Approved by:    perl

This fixes a little bug introduced in r1.8.

When installing with pkg_add(1), the ${SITE_PERL} directory was not created
causing system headers not to be perlified and installed by h2ph.  This made
some things break in very mysterious ways.

The pkg-install script used by pkg_add(1) doesn't know about the many special
variables in bsd.port.mk, so it shouldn't try to rely on them.

Noticed by:     bento, kris
Approved by:    kris

Set PKGMESSAGE to a bogus file on recent versions of -CURRENT where Perl 5.8
is the default.

Obtained from:  lang/perl5

Run use.perl port by default from the port as well as the package.

Update the pkg-install script to run use.perl port after install on recent
versions of -CURRENT.

Reported by:    kris

Check /usr/bin/perl5 existence before using "ident -q /usr/bin/perl5".

Approved by:    tobez

This fixes plist problem for people unlucky enough to have a
${PREFIX}/share/man/man1 directory (which perl's Configure
unconditionally prefers to anything else if found).

Submitted by:   se, vanilla
Approved by:    portmgr (marcus)

In some cases of weird symlinking (possibly triggered by portupgrade),
perl binary might fail to be installed during make install.  Try to fix
that.

Reported by:    "Shobaki sam." <shsam@free.fr>
PR:             59186

Update forgotten distinfo.

Reported by:    herbert@bugat.at

1. Update to 5.8.2.
2. Finally switch to libperl.so.
3. Respect CFLAGS.

PR:             58735 (item 3)
Submitted by:   Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> (item 3)

Under certain conditions (perl Makefile.PL used directly or by proxy,
without PERL_CONFIGURE trickery), the interaction of 5.8.1's MakeMaker
and BSDPAN can lead to parts of perl-using ports to be installed to
/lib, which is bad.  Fix that.

Reported by:    Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>

Fix the workings of ENABLE_SUIDPERL knob.

Reported by:    Neil Darlow <neil@darlow.co.uk>, Nicola Tiling <nti@w4w.net>

Update to 5.8.1.

Also:

Make suidperl optional (ENABLE_SUIDPERL knob).  Switch to perlmalloc by
default, unless threaded perl is built, to improve performance.
Modernize pkg-plist (switch to SITE_PERL where possible).  Update WWW.

Many thanks to foxfair who prepared most of this update.

utilize SITE_PERL

PR:             58166
Submitted by:   Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung@dragon2.net>

Add a patch to properly escape generated action attribute in
CGI::start_form.  The escape code is taken from CGI.pm v.3.00.

PR:             57391
Reported by:    IIJIMA Hiromitsu <delmonta@ht.sakura.ne.jp>

Make portlint(1) happy by changing strip to ${STRIP_CMD}

Submitted by:   Oleg Karachevtsev <ok@etrust.ru>
PR:             56998

Fix a bug which goes unnoticed on all platforms but leads to a
coredump on FreeBSD/amd64 when one uses $^N variable and there were
no captures in the last executed regexp.

One third of this fix was applied to the perl tree in December 2002,
with the rest hopefully applied in the next couple of days.

Reported by:    jwd

Respect global CC settings.

Approved by:    maintainer

Under certain conditions, perl's configure script could pick a directory
other than ${LOCALBASE}/bin to install its scripts (h2ph, perldoc, and
friends) to.  Fix that.

PR:             51350
Reported by:    Oliver Brandmueller <ob@gruft.de>

Patch Safe.pm (see
http://use.perl.org/articles/02/10/06/1118222.shtml?tid=5).

Reported by:    kuriyama

Add a new `WITH_THREADS' option to build perl with support for threads and
fix threaded build on 5.x.

Approved by:    maintainer

Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.

E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.

chase gdbm lib version

Make port's Configure correctly detect crypt(3).  Bump PORTREVISION.

Reported by:    Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@tendra.org>
Approved by:    portmgr

o Make perl -MConfig -e 'use lib $Config{installsitelib}' work
o Bump PORTREVISION

Prompted by:    green

Merge from lang/perl5:

    Add two knobs:

    WITH_PERL_MALLOC - to compile with perl's own malloc, as opposed to
    the freebsd system malloc. Some might find this useful, since perl's
    malloc is marginally faster in typical cases, and orders of
    magnitude faster in degenerate cases. Use with care.

    WITH_GDBM - to compile with gdbm support.

Modify BSDPAN to make INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR and INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR be equal
to INSTALLMAN1DIR and INSTALLMAN3DIR, respectively, if there are no
corresponding variables in Config.pm, which is unfortunately the case
for perl 5.8.0.  This fixes manpage installation path for p5 ports built
with perl5.8.0 as /usr/bin/perl.

Update to 5.8.0 (after repocopy).

5 vulnerabilities affecting 16 ports have been reported in the past 14 days

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