>On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:57:42AM -0700, yary wrote: >> I have installed my own build of perl into /usr/local which might be >> the cause- though it can also happen with the system perl, All one has >> to do is install a binary/XS version of a library that system perl has >> a non-binary version of, in a directory that the system perl uses. > > Ariane van der Steldt wrote: >Don't do that. No, it can't happen with the system perl, we control that.
It happens, though I'm not sure why or how to prevent it. Note that in 4.9 the system perl looks in some /usr/local directories before /usr/libdata - $ /usr/bin/perl -e 'print join "\n",@INC' /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.12.2 /usr/local/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.12.2 /usr/libdata/perl5 /usr/local/libdata/perl5 The right way to fix this is to have all the /usr/libdata paths before any /usr/local paths in the system perl's @INC. Order them like so: /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.12.2 /usr/libdata/perl5 /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.12.2 /usr/local/libdata/perl5 Here's a scenario- and I don't have a 4.8 system to test it on, just from memory- In OpenBSD 4.8, using only the system perl, install the XS version of Digest::SHA. OBSD 4.8 uses perl 5.10. This isn't so farfetched. Even if 4.8 comes with a binary Digest::SHA, it may have an update that you want. Perl decides to put it under /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/ Upgrade the same machine to OpenBSD 4.9. It uses perl 5.12 which is not binary-compatible with perl 5.10 Now any system utilities that use Digest::SHA will get the version in /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd , at the top of @INC. Not sure if that's what happened to me (or the other poster at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/185763 ) but it's my most plausible guess
