Re: Gtk-Perl-0.7008 building issue, bugzilla #94531, proposed solution

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Sergey Bratus said:
>   I apologize if this is years late or misdirected. I've been trying
> to compile the subj on various RH 9 and RH 8 systems with perl 5.8.0 and was
> running into linking errors when building Gtk.so and other modules. I found
> this problem described in Bugzilla bug #94531.
>
>   I resolved it by finding what change in the newer MakeMaker
> module that comes with 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 broke makefile generation
> and patching */Makefile.PL files. My writeup and fixup script
> follow.

thanks for the in-depth info!


0.7008's compile problem on perl 5.8.0 became a FAQ in the early part of the
year; my proposed solution was a bit more brute-force than yours:
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2003-March/msg00074.html


it appears that nobody with commit access on that tree is still subscribed to
the list, so we sent an off-list message to every address we could find in the
ChangeLog.  about a month or so later, Marc Lehmann found that message and
created a beta maintainance release of gtk-perl (0.7009):
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2003-June/msg00086.html

it's on CPAN, too:
http://search.cpan.org/author/MLEHMANN/Gtk-Perl-0.7009/

the changelog mentions what has changed:
http://search.cpan.org/src/MLEHMANN/Gtk-Perl-0.7009/ChangeLog

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