On 02/18/2015 03:50 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Bruce Miller wrote:
Hi all;
The portfile for LaTeXML (with the help
of mojca and others on this list) now has lines
to the effect:
PortGroup perl5 1.0
perl5.branches 5.8 5.10 5.12 5.14 5.16 5.18 5.20
and
if {${perl5.major} ne ""} {
depends_lib-append \
port:p${perl5.major}-archive-zip \
port:p${perl5.major}-file-which \
...
- Perl 5.8-5.14 is no longer supported and those variants need to be removed
- The Portfile is somewhat misconfigured and the variants don't work at all.
My understanding is that LaTeXML is thus
ready to run under "any" version of perl5.
But:
(1) the listing under available ports for LaTeXML
shows dependencies on p5.16-archive-zip, etc.
and
(2) a user reported a problem when trying to install
LaTeXML that it depended on p5.12-archive-zip which was
obsolete, recommending p5.16-archive-zip.
Is the reason for (1) that 5.16 is currently the "default" perl,
and the reason for (2) that that user currently has perl 5.12
installed? (and thus should upgrade to perl 5.16)
The reason for (1) is that port isn't setup properly. I can easily
configure it to list dependencies on 5.20, but it will still run
DEBUG: Executing command line: cd
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/__path__/LaTeXML/work/LaTeXML-0.8.0" &&
/opt/local/bin/perl5.16 Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
CC="/usr/bin/clang" LD="/usr/bin/clang"
TEXMF='/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local'
and thus use default Perl I guess. So someone would have to tweak it a
bit further.
The slightly strange thing is that the port still tried to use perl
5.12. Did the user update MacPorts? I think I removed perl5.12 from
allowed variants of perl, so the user's Perl should long be replaced
with 5.16 and 5.12 should be defunct for about two months now
(http://trac.macports.org/changeset/130129).
I haven't queried the user about this (yet); I wanted
to have already upgraded LaTeXML to 0.8.1 before sending
him back to retry...
Just checking that I understand what's going on;
I'm preparing to make a release 0.8.1 of LaTeXML
and want to get it right...
Can you please open a ticket on Trac, so that we can discuss the issue there?
Yes, I've opened #46896 (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46896)
to sort this out, and also to upgrade LaTeXML.
Thanks;
bruce
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