Re: [gentoo-dev] IF YOUR EBUILD USES PERL, PLEASE READ

[Michael Cummings]

I have both a fix and a bug report for imagemagick :) (actually in 
that order too) Missed that fix when I did the other updates, will be
up when I get home tonight.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:53:52AM -0400, David Wilde wrote:
> Not sure if this is way OT, but I'm trying to emerge koffice-1.2_rc1.ebuild
> right now and I've been getting access violations building ImageMagick.  It
> started with an access denied to
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image then Image/Magick then
> ../Image and ../Image/Magick.  I created those directories and now am
> getting this:
>
> ----------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> ------------------------------------------------------
> LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-imagemagick-5.4.7-2899.log"
>
> open_wr:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so
> chmod:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so
> open_wr:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.bs
> chmod:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.bs
> open_wr:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/autosplit.ix
> chmod:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/autosplit.ix
> open_wr:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick.pm
> chmod:	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick.pm
> open_wr:	/usr/man/man3pm/Image::Magick.3pm
> chmod:	/usr/man/man3pm/Image::Magick.3pm
> open_wr:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/.packlist
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------
>
> Not sure if this has anything to do, but I know that ImageMagick uses the
> MakeFile.PL for PerlMagick, and that looks like what is going on here.  I
> would cc this to the ImageMagick package maintainer as well, but I don't
> know who that is.  TIA
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cummings [mailto:mcummings@g.o]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:58 PM
> To: gentoo-dev@g.o; gentoo-core@g.o
> Subject: [gentoo-dev] IF YOUR EBUILD USES PERL, PLEASE READ
>
> Sorry for the caps, but sometimes it's the surest way to get attention.
>
> If your ebuild uses perl, there are some things you need to be aware of.
> Perl 5.6.1's default MakeMaker module, that portion that creates the make
> file from the perl Makefile.PL file, was flawed. Although it didn't violate
> the sandbox, it doesn't always honor your target build directories. It also
> failed to recognize build syntax that it was supposed to understand, such as
> not always honoring the PREFIX you passed it. Because the potential harm
> outweighed the mess I have now, this has been fixed for future/current
> users. THIS ONLY AFFECTS EBUILDS THAT USE PERL MAKEFILE, NOT EBUILDS THAT
> MERELY COMPILE AGAINST PERL'S LIBRARIES/BINARIES.
>
> The result? If your ebuild at any point generates a perl module as an add
> on, and you are manually passing it a "perl Makfile.PL" instead of
> incorporating the perl-modules eclass, it *will* break. These bugs are
> getting assigned to me right now, and I am fixing them, but I wanted to make
> you aware should you have a new release come up and you don't check to see
> if any changes were made to the ebuild since last time.
>
> If you need a piece-meal example of incorporating the perl-module.eclass, I
> would recommend looking at the (masked) cyrus-imapd ebuild. I have rewritten
> the portion that deals with the perl module and included the inherit
> perl-module line to make it work. It isn't pretty, but it is using the
> eclass fully.
>
> Please ping me if you have any questions, happy to answer, sometimes even
> coherenly. =:)
>
>
> Mike
>
> I would strongly encourage using the inherit perl-module if at all possible
> (and of course applicable).
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