commit: 4b348e89b0b705b97c0582eeca0bab2435c4d778 Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Tue May 7 07:50:54 2024 +0000 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Tue May 7 07:51:22 2024 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=4b348e89
Add 2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo.org> .../2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand.en.txt | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand/2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand.en.txt b/2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand/2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bde92d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand/2024-05-07-perl-features-use-expand.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Title: dev-lang/perl useflags become a PERL_FEATURES use-expand +Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2024-05-10 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 + +Starting with dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3, the three use flags "debug", +"ithreads", and "quadmath" of Perl are renamed into a common +use-expand variable, PERL_FEATURES, which should be set *globally* +in make.conf. + +If you do *not* want to change the settings of your Perl, make +sure that the new variable PERL_FEATURES contains the same settings +that were applied to your Perl all along. + +I.e., if you have dev-lang/perl[ithreads] installed, make sure +to now set in make.conf + PERL_FEATURES="ithreads" + +If you *want* to change the settings of your Perl, you may have to +run perl-cleaner after rebuilding dev-lang/perl: + perl-cleaner --modules ; perl-cleaner --force --libperl + +In either case, a full world update + emerge -uDNav world +is recommended and should also bring your system into a consistent +state. + +Background: This change in the structure of the useflags is +intended to solve bug 930123. The three useflags influence not only +how Perl itself is installed, but also all Perl modules...
