On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Niko Tyni <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not seeing this behaviour, and it would be a serious problem for our > > autobuilders so they aren't either. Does it still happen for you? > > No, this has been fixed since then.
OK, thanks. > > > But libperl-dev lacks these depencies, so one has to install those > > > manually. > > > > The libperl-dev package is only needed for linking against libperl.so > > itself, > > its dependencies aren't really related to what ExtUtils::MakeMaker needs. > > Of course they are - if I install perl I cannot build xs-modules, I need > libperl-dev, No. The libperl-dev package only contains /usr/lib/libperl.so and /usr/lib/libperl.a, and only depends on perl and libperl5.10. It is not related to building XS modules. Its description reads Files for developing applications which embed a Perl interpreter and for programs compiled with perlcc. (Hmph, I see the reference to 'perlcc' is stale and should be removed.) > and since perl requires linking against -lgdbm (or did so in the > past), *something* has to depend on libgdbm-dev, and the obvious place for > this is libperl-dev. The same is true for any other library perl is required > to link against when building your own perl binaries or modules. We don't currently offer a package that is designed to pull in everything needed for building XS modules. You must manually install at least gcc, libc6-dev, and make. Alternatively, the 'build-essential' package depends on everything necessary to compile C and C++ 'Hello, world!' applications, which is pretty much the same thing. > Same princpiple applies - there must be a debian package which depends on > pthread.h and other development files because without it, building perl > modules isn't possible. The package that contains pthread.h is libc6-dev, which is part of the build-essential set and therefore does not need to be listed in package build dependencies. Building XS modules outside the packaging system requires manually installing libc6-dev. > Without the dependency there is no way to build perl > extensions/binaries/modules without manually installing perl-dev > dependencies (currently only libc-dev). libperl-dev does not depend on libc6-dev and is not intended for building perl extensions. > Or maybe debian doesn't support ExtUtils::MakeMaker? Or maybe debian requires > one to install build-dependencies for perl to install modules? We don't offer a shortcut for pulling in the tools needed to install modules outside the Debian package system, unless that shortcut is considered to be the 'build-essential' package. It might make sense for libperl-dev to do that in addition to its current purpose, but at the moment it doesn't (and never has AFAIK.) I was actually going to pull in 'make' by default as it's the only requirement for installing pure perl CPAN modules, but I ended up reverting that change recently due to http://bugs.debian.org/596734 -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
