gd2 fails on perl5

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jan 14, 2009, at 4:29 AM, robert delius royar wrote:

> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 (20:26 +1100 UTC) Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> Joshua Root wrote:
>>> Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>>> BlackBook: brad$ ls /usr/share/bin/
>>>> c2ph       dprofpp    h2ph       libnetcfg  perlcc     perlthanks
>>>> pod2html   pod2text   podselect  pstruct    xsubpp
>>>> corelist   enc2xs     h2xs       pear_osx   perldoc    piconv
>>>> pod2latex  pod2usage  prove      s2p
>>>> cpan       find2perl  instmodsh  perlbug    perlivp    pl2pm
>>>> pod2man    podchecker psed       splain
>>>> BlackBook: brad$
>>>
>>> How about `ls -ld /usr/share/bin /opt/local /opt/local/bin`?
>>
>> Also the debug output for a port that is installing into /usr would  
>> be
>> helpful. E.g. `sudo port -d install perl5.8`.
>>
>> - Josh
> How about the following that clearly shows that the port does not  
> properly sanitize against this problem:
> [Long lines ahead; expect line mangling.]
> grendel% port patch perl5.8
> --->  Fetching perl5.8
> --->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
> --->  Extracting perl5.8
> grendel% grep -R /share/bin /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5.8
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.9/Configure:   
> $test -d /usr/share/bin     && dflt=/usr/share/bin
>
> So the maintainer might add
> -D scriptdir='${prefix}/share/scripts'
> to the configure.args values.  I am leary of replacing a large,  
> working perl 5.8.8 Macports installation to see if this is the  
> correct.  The problem only shows up if a users has a directory (not  
> a link) in
> /usr/share/scripts
> /usr/share/bin
> /usr/local/script or
> /usr/local/scripts
> Lines 8791-8808 of Configure
> : determine where public executable scripts go
> set scriptdir scriptdir
> eval $prefixit
> case "$scriptdir" in
> '')
> 	dflt="$bin"
> 	: guess some guesses
> 	$test -d /usr/share/scripts && dflt=/usr/share/scripts
> 	$test -d /usr/share/bin     && dflt=/usr/share/bin
> 	$test -d /usr/local/script  && dflt=/usr/local/script
> 	$test -d /usr/local/scripts && dflt=/usr/local/scripts
> 	$test -d $prefixexp/script  && dflt=$prefixexp/script
> 	set dflt
> 	eval $prefixup
> 	;;
> *)  dflt="$scriptdir"
> 	;;
> esac
>
> Actually, it would make sense, if possible (at least with an upgrade  
> installation) to check the current configuration for perl5.8 and set  
> those values to be the same in the new one.  I use perl extensively,  
> but I am not proficient at configuring it. The maintainer might  
> figure out something by parsing the output of `perl -V` searching  
> for the values for "config_args".  Perhaps this is already being done?
>
> Here is a patch for the Portfile:
>
> --- /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ 
> lang/perl5.8/Portfile.~1~  2009-01-07 06:48:14.000000000 -0500
> +++ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ 
> lang/perl5.8/Portfile      2009-01-14 07:01:14.000000000 -0500
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> configure.args \
>     -des \
>     -D prefix='${prefix}' \
> +    -D scriptdir='${prefix}/share/scripts' \
>     -D cppflags="\${CPPFLAGS}" \
>     -D ldflags="\${LDFLAGS}" \
>     -D vendorprefix='${prefix}' \
>
> -- 
> Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of  
> English
> Morehead State University                             Morehead,  
> Kentucky

Thank you so much Robert. Finally something that supports my position  
that the port is violating macports file space.

Regarding the existence of /usr/share/bin, Apple php is installed at / 
usr/bin so if you install pear and don't change defaults it installs  
to /usr/share/bin.