OpenBSD-perl

Patches and scripts with the goal of a current perl in OpenBSD base

Now available from https://github.com/afresh1/OpenBSD-perl

It's easy!

• download the patches and scripts
• extract someplace
• download perl-5.38.2.tar.gz into the same directory
  • https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PE/PEVANS/perl-5.38.2.tar.gz
• cd to someplace you have room
• run /path/to/OpenBSD-perl/build_perl
• wait
• send me the log file(s) it generates

There are some environment variables you can set to control the build. Unless otherwise specified, just need to be set.

build_local_perl

NO_LOCAL_PATCHES

Disables applying the local patches to the build.

Automatically gets re-run if the build with the patches fails. Unless you set NO_RETRY_WITHOUT_PATCHES

NO_RETRY_WITHOUT_PATCHES

Disables cleanup and retry without patches. Useful for figuring out why failures are happening with the patches.

test_patches

REGEN_PATCHES

Just regenerates the patches, doesn't attempt to build.

Misc in utils.sub

NO_BSD_WRAPPER

Disables using make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper and instead uses the standard ./Configure && make to build perl.

SKIP_UNICORE_PATCH

Ignores files in lib/unicore/{lib,To} when doing cvs rm and add

In make_src_patch, setting this doesn't apply pre_built_unicore.patch and so makes the patch slightly smaller. Not really useful.

Mostly used internally by import_perl to apply the unicore changes in a separate commit.

J

Provides "make flags" hook, normally used to set J=-j8 or something to run make in parallel.