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authorjlam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>2005-08-06 06:18:44 +0000
committerjlam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>2005-08-06 06:18:44 +0000
commit766bb600721eaa9dec2229dd8c6292214e662225 (patch)
tree554688efac79710dce203345436bb3e8cb9748b1 /doc
parent18da2edbabbf94bfdf670b9aedc7c7b3b8da5add (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-766bb600721eaa9dec2229dd8c6292214e662225.tar.gz
Update lang/perl5 to 5.8.7. Changes from version 5.8.6 include updates
for many "core" modules, UTF-8 and Unicode bugfixes, and ithreads bugfixes. The major changes are in the pkgsrc infrastructure to handle Perl and Perl modules. All pkgsrc-installed Perl modules are now installed in "vendor" directories, and the perl interpreter has been modifed to search for libraries in the following order: site, vendor, perl. The Perl library is stored in a directory that is named for the Perl ABI version associated with the Perl release, so any updates of Perl to newer versions can be done "in-place" as long as Perl ABI version remains the same. All Perl scripts and man pages are stored in locations that won't conflict between site, vendor, and perl modules, and a new utility perllink(1) now manages symlinks to those scripts and man pages under the usual ${LOCALBASE}/bin and ${LOCALBASE}/man/man1. PERL5_SITEPREFIX may be set to the prefix where local, site-specific modules will be installed, e.g. PERL5_SITEPREFIX=/usr/local. Note that modules installed here are completely unmanaged by pkgsrc. Update the buildlink and tool dependencies on perl to require perl>=5.8.7 to reflect the new locations for Perl modules and the Perl shared library.
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-$NetBSD: CHANGES,v 1.10804 2005/08/06 05:33:48 xtraeme Exp $
+$NetBSD: CHANGES,v 1.10805 2005/08/06 06:18:44 jlam Exp $
Changes to the packages collection and infrastructure in 2005:
@@ -508,3 +508,4 @@ Changes to the packages collection and infrastructure in 2005:
Added net/btget version 1.04 [reinoud 2005-08-06]
Updated emulators/suse91_base to 9.1nb6 [wiz 2005-08-05]
Added mail/etpan version 0.6.1 [xtraeme 2005-08-06]
+ Updated lang/perl5 to 5.8.7 [jlam 2005-08-06]