> On Nov 27, 2021, at 8:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 27, 2021, at 19:58, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
>>> Ok... the significance of this is...??
>> Well in your case, the significance of appears overwhelming — in that it is
>> an excellent clue as to the cause of your problem, I believe.
>>
>> ie - there is nothing wrong on your system, it is nothing you did, it is not
>> your fault, indeed something has changed — all that kind of stuff.
>>
>> So it is the starting point of sorting out a solution maybe, whatever the
>> solution might be.
>>
>> I think - on systems of a certain age, we leave the build compiler for perl
>> as the build compiler, and just add a run dep on that compiler for perl.
>
> The reasons for making the change were sound. I would not revert it or change
> it. As I said in my previous message, the problem seems to be that the perl
> build system is trying to compile something in the destroot phase. It should
> compile everything in the build phase instead.
>
Maybe - see the next commit after the one referenced — perhaps the answer lies
within.
