Stuff like this happens, you can e-mail the port maintainer and bitch him out for making a stupid change to the dependency requirement, or you can simply dispense with ports, download the perl module and compile and install it "the old fashioned way"
You ought to have nuked and repaved that server, your just lucky that this very minor thing was the only thing that blew up. Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Inder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 11:58 AM Subject: Port upgrade/install problem: MySQL and Perl I/F > p5-DBD-mysql50 and mysql itself > Date: 03 Feb 2007 19:58:22 +0000 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lines: 128 > User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > I've upgraded Perl (via "portupgrade"), but the ports I need > to re-install to restore my perl-to-MySQL interface won't! > > I'm working on a rather long-neglected server running > > FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p7 > > It was running Perl 5.6, but I'm trying to install some code that > needs 5.8. So I did "cvsup" and then > > portupgrade -o lang/perl5.8 perl > > All went smoothly, and "perl-after-upgrade" gave me a list of > perl packages to re-install, and I did "portupgrade" on each of them. > > Super! > > EXCEPT for the Perl to MySQL interface package: p5-DBD-mysql50 > > This is causing me two problems. > > Currently, "mysql" is installed and working. > > # pkg_info -Ia | grep mysql > mysql-client-5.0.0_2 Multithreaded SQL database (client) > mysql-server-5.0.0_2 Multithreaded SQL database (server) > > When I try to portupgrade the perl interface, it starts trying to > build mysql for itself, even without a "-R" option. And it does the > same thing even if I change to the ports directory and type "make". > > I don't understand why it is doing that. I am guessing the installed > version of mysql is too old for the perl interface. But I didn't > think upgrade (or a port "make") would recurse unless "told" to.... > But here's what it says... > > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-4.0000 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/DBI.pm - found > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-4.0000 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-4.0000 depends on shared library: mysqlclient.15 - not found > ===> Verifying install for mysqlclient.15 in /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client > ===> Building for mysql-client-5.0.33 > > The second problem is that the mysql port won't actually compile. It > announces that it is "Configuring for mysql-client-5.0.33", and then > proceeds to report a whole slew (hundreds) of "checking..." activities. > About a dozen that start "pthread_", and some of them succeed. Then > it starts compling, but this process finishes with.... > > mkdir .libs > cc -DDBUG_OFF -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -D_THREAD_SAFE -o factorial my_main.o factorial.o libdbug.a ../mysys/libmysys.a ../strings/libmystrings.a -lcrypt -lm > ../mysys/libmysys.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `my_thread_global_end': > my_thr_init.o(.text+0x1b7): undefined reference to `pthread_cond_timedwait' > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /data/ports_build/usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client/work/mysql-5.0.33/dbug. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /data/ports_build/usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client/work/mysql-5.0.33. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /data/ports_build/usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client/work/mysql-5.0.33. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-mysql50. > > I've tried googling for this, but although I've found a handful of > people with broadly similar problems, nobody has actually been offered > anything I recognise as an applicable solution! > > The upshot of this is that the previous Perl application is now broken > because it cannot access the MySQL database. > > So I need to either... > > get the latest MySQL port to compile, or > > somehow get p5-DBD-mysql50 to work with the existing MySQL. > > ...but I'm not sure how to start on either. > > Help? Any advice welcome! > > I have tried putting the p5-DBD-mysql50 package back the way it was > (albeit in a rather simple-minded way -- just copying > /usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-mysql50 from its sister machine). But > this didn't make any difference. It still decides that even this > version (which was working) is incompatible with the existing mysql... > > boru/p5-DBD-mysql50# make > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===> Extracting for p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 > => MD5 Checksum OK for DBD-mysql-2.9003.tar.gz. > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found > ===> Patching for p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/DBI.pm - found > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found > ===> p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 depends on shared library: mysqlclient.15 - not found > : > : > > > Like the "current" version, this version claims it cannot find > mysqlclient.15. And indeed, "locate" seems to confirm its absence... > > # locate mysqlclient > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14 > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.a > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.14 > > I don't understand why the p5-DBD-mysql50-2.9003 now says it needs > mysqlclient.15 when it used to run happily with what was there... > > Robert. > > -- > Robert Inder Tel: 0131 229 1052 Interactive Information Ltd, > Director Mobile: 07808 492 213 3, Lauriston Gardens, > Edinburgh EH3 9HH > Interactions speak louder than words SCOTLAND UK > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"