[ITA] Perl distributions (in preparation of Perl 5.22)

[Ken Brown]

On 7/5/2015 2:31 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 09:26 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 7/5/2015 2:02 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> David Rothenberger writes:
>>>> I've rebuilt the package as curr and not test and uploaded to my area. I
>>>> did not create the !ready file.
>>>>
>>>> Is this the right way to do this? Or should I release a test package?
>>>
>>> As long as you remember what you did it's going to be OK.  A test
>>> package might only be needed if someone else asks for it or you need
>>> testers.
>>>
>>> BTW, since we're still not having feedback from Volker Zell,
>>
>> We did get feedback from him on a different issue:
>>
>>     https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-06/msg00149.html
>>
>> So I think it's clear that he won't be rebuilding his packages in the near future.
>
> Let's not wait for him.  I'll rebuild his packages if necessary.

Just to save you or Volker a little time, I already took a look at ming and 
found that it needs the following patch in order to link with our current Tcl:

--- origsrc/ming-0.4.5/configure.in     2015-07-05 12:58:52.134691000 -0400
+++ src/ming-0.4.5/configure.in 2015-07-05 13:00:28.203185800 -0400
@@ -163,8 +163,9 @@ $HOME/lib \
  `dirname $tclbindir`/lib"

         for i in $tcllibdirs_default; do
-         for suf in 8.3 8.4 ""; do
-           if test -f $i/libtcl$suf.so || test -f $i/libtcl$suf.a; then
+         for suf in 8.3 8.4 8.5 ""; do
+           if test -f $i/libtcl$suf.so || test -f $i/libtcl$suf.a \
+           || test -f $i/libtcl$suf.dll.a ; then
              TCL_LIB_DIR=$i
              TCL_LIB_SPEC="-L$i -ltcl$suf"
              break