Re: Failure to compile module-metadata-pm5184-1.000038-1

Hi Hanspeter,

Decided this was a good case for just removing old fink and re-installing fink using instructions on fink new of 9/23. Installation went fine, no more strange perl version problems. I have not been able to restore all the packages, but I guess that is to be expected.

-Ed

From: Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, September 22, 2023 at 5:57 AM
To: Edward R Kinney <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Failure to compile module-metadata-pm5184-1.000038-1
On 9/21/23 12:19 PM, Edward R Kinney wrote:
> Hi Hanspeter,
>
> Stranger and stranger. Stopped terminal, opened new terminal window and ran fink index -f and fink list system-perl. They are stuck back at perl 5.18 and fink list system-perl5303 isn’t found. Re-ran fink-virtual-pkgs --debug, it still shows the system-perl associated with system-perl5303.
>
>
> elhefe:~ kinney$ fink index -f
>
> Password:
> Scanning package description files..........
>
> elhefe:~ kinney$ fink list system-perl
> Scanning package description files..........
> Information about 14720 packages read in 1 seconds.
>
>   i   system-perl      5.18.4-1     [virtual package representing perl]
>   p   system-perl5184               [virtual package]
>
> elhefe:~ kinney$ fink list system-perl5303
>
> Scanning package description files..........
> Information about 14720 packages read in 2 seconds.
>
> elhefe:~ kinney$ /usr/bin/perl -v
>
> This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 3 (v5.30.3) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
> (with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
>
> Let me know if there is something else I should try! Sorry for all this trouble…
>

Very weird that `fink list` and fink-virtual-pkgs have a disconnect.
Fink internally uses the command `/usr/bin/perl -e 'printf "%vd", $^V' `
to determine the perl version and it should be the same for `fink list`
and fink-virtual-pkgs.

What does that report? Also, what does this give you:
ls -l /usr/bin/perl* /usr/local/bin/perl* /opt/sw/bin/perl*

Hanspeter

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