On 20 Jan 2007, at 11:44:53 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > My guess here is that you left out the "Type: perl" line? The > default CompileScript is different for "Type: perl" packages than it > is for most packages.
That is the problem (or rather, I deleted it because I thought I was specifying it enough elsewhere...) > > The easiest way to create the legacy package is just to use the > same .info file as before, but we "Type: perl (581)" (which will just > restrict it to perl581). Also, you need to rename the file as i > mentioned before. The name addition I got right (I think). Several pairs of perlmods in tracker for gnucash related dependencies. Thanks. > > -- Dave > > > On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:04 PM, David Reiser wrote: > >> When I started maintaining finance-quotehist, I didn't fully test all >> the versions when I created the multiple version info file. Now I'm >> trying to split out the 581 version as a legacy at the same time I'm >> adding a 588 version to the main info file I'm planning on >> maintaining. I have discovered that finance-quotehist-pm581 doesn't >> build (at least for me on 10.4.8 PPC). Trying to build-as-nobody, I >> get: >> >> ./configure --prefix=/sw >> Can't exec "./configure": No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/ >> Fink/Services.pm line 584, <DATA> line 1. >> ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code -1 >> >> Was there some function that was separate in 581 that got rolled into >> newer perl-core modules? >> >> The other question is: If this version has been dangling unbuildable >> in the 10.4 tree for 6 months, is it reasonable to assume that nobody >> is using it and I can just dump it altogether? >> >> Dave On another perl topic -- have there been problems with perl tests? I had to try to install perl588-core three times before all the tests would pass (different failures on the two failed attempts, too). I have had intermittent problems with finance-quotehist too, but I had figured that was the data server being cranky or slow. Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
