#1997 closed defect (invalid)
Perl build instructions in chapter 5 out of date?
| Reported by: | Chris | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | major | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
The description in Chapter 5 for configuring a minimal Perl seems out of date.
The patch, perl-5.8.8-libc-2.patch, does not apply to 5.8.8 because the file hints/linux.sh does not exist.
The file configure.gnu also does not exist in 5.8.8.
I have confirmed that the MD5sum is correct: a377c0c67ab43fd96eeec29ce19e8382 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
This appears to be applicable to both stable and development versions.
Um... help?
Change History (4)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 18 years ago
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
Ugh.
No, sorry, this is user error - I should have checked my work more carefully. Go ahead and close the bug.
I'm importing tars and patches into git repositories, and I seem to be the primary user finding bugs in a particular script in git's contrib directory called import-tars. I believe the *real* issue lies there, and has nothing to do with LFS.
Sorry for the noise.
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
| Milestone: | → 6.3 |
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| Resolution: | → invalid |
| Status: | new → closed |
OK, closing. Thanks for the explanation.
Not sure why your perl package doesn't have those files, but the one that I just pulled down from perl.org (I went to http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2006/perl-5.8.8.html and followed the .bz2 link; I don't know which mirror it used) certainly does:
Maybe try downloading again?
(I'll leave this as new (and not resolved/invalid) until I can get some confirmation from another person either way. Meanwhile, I'm rechecking the file at the URL in the book... yep, that works fine for me too.)