> On Feb 28, 2022, at 10:19 PM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 2022-3-1 14:03 , Craig Treleaven wrote: >> The buildbots on OSX 10.12 and older are not finding a compatible version of >> XML::Parser and thus geany's configure fails. However, NONE of the >> buildbots (nor my local machine) are using /opt/local/bin/perl5.30! > > The correct fix is to delete the INTLTOOL_PERL check from the geany configure > script. There's no reason programs that use intltool need to care about which > perl intltool is using internally. One of many examples of doing this: > <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/xfce/libxfce4ui/files/remove-intltool-perl-hack.diff > > <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/xfce/libxfce4ui/files/remove-intltool-perl-hack.diff>> > > We have patched our intltool port to do this since 2013, so ports that run > autoreconf will get the fix. But configure scripts that were generated > upstream with an unpatched intltool.m4 will need to be fixed. > > The patch has never been acknowledged by intltool upstream: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1197875 > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1197875>> > > I'm not sure if it's even being developed any more. > Thanks, Josh. I’ve taken the route to patch geany’s configure script and that seems to have fixed the issue for me.
I now understand that there is an intltool ticket on this issue [1]. I had seen it previously but didn’t grok that it was the problem I’d run into. I’ve added to the ticket so hopefully others can save a little time. [1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60155 Thanks again. Craig
