[MacPorts] #17931: inkscape broken by perl5.8 upgrade then fails to build

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#17931: inkscape broken by perl5.8 upgrade then fails to build
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  Reporter:  jwhowse4@…            |       Owner:  devans@…           
      Type:  defect                |      Status:  closed             
  Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:  Port Bugs          
 Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.7.0              
Resolution:  fixed                 |    Keywords:                     
      Port:  inkscape              |  
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Changes (by devans@…):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 Have verified the build problem on my my system as well.

 It does appear that the upgrade to perl5.8 5.8.9 broke the experimental
 support for perl scripting in inkscape 0.46.
 However, this functionality has been declared obsolete upstream and the
 scripting support in version 0.46 was removed
 from trunk svn in March of 2008 in favor of a new language binding scheme
 that supports Python, Ruby and Java only.

 Since a 0.46.1 release incorporating these changes is scheduled for March
 2009, rather than try and patch the existing
 code, I have just disabled the Perl scripting feature and incremented the
 revision to force a rebuild to remove
 any references to the 5.8.8 library.

 For a look at what's coming, try inkscape-devel which is built from a
 recent revision of the upstream svn trunk and
 includes the new scripting language binding scheme (among many other
 improvements and changes). Don't forget to
 deactivate inkscape before installing inkscape-devel.

 Committed in r45265.

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