trouble building term-readkey-pm5184

Hanspeter,
In the posts for this issue (github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/461 <http://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/461>) https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/461 <https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/461>) I see this from TheSin on Dec 9, 2020:
> 
> Got it working, not pretty but works
> 
> in PkgVersion.pm
> 
> change
> 
>                                 "$archflags $perlcmd Makefile.PL \%c\n".
>                                 "/usr/bin/make CC=gcc CXX=g++\n";
> to
> 
>                                 "$archflags $perlcmd Makefile.PL \%c\n".
>                                 "perl -pi -e 's, blib/, %b/blib/,g' Makefile\n".
>                                 "/usr/bin/make CC=gcc CXX=g++\n";
> Obviously this type of fix could break other packages, it might be safer to do this inside the term-readkey-pm info file, but I'm going to test it in the PkgVersion.pm for a bit see how it goes.
> 
> This does NOT fix tests, this likely needs to be done in the test module as far as I can see.

When I first saw this, I implemented this “fix” on my Catalina fink installation and was able to build term-readkey-pm5184. I would like to suggest others try this. Is there some way it could be implemented in a patch that would only be selected if a user wants to try it out?

The file PkgVersion.pm is in /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink and the edit adds a new line after line 1180. At some point after I successfully built term-readkey-pm5184 my edited version was overwritten, but things still work. I understand this may not work for everyone. Just wondering if there can be a path forwards for those whose installations would benefit from this change until a real solution is found.

Tom

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