Jamie Lenehan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I've got perl 5.8.8 to the stage where it is ready for use.
> As this is a pretty big and complex system and I've made some rather
> large changes to the way the build happens I'd like to get some
> reports from other people that it works for them before removing the
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1".
>
> You need to build perl-native 5.8.8 and then perl 5.8.8. (You always
> have to build the matching -native version of perl first.)

perl-native-5.8.8 builds fine but with the following error

ERROR: QA issue: libgettextsrc.la failed sanity test (reference to 
workdir or installed)
ERROR: QA issue: libdb-4.3.la failed sanity test (reference to workdir 
or installed)
ERROR: QA issue: libgettextpo.la failed sanity test (reference to 
workdir or installed)
ERROR: QA issue: libltdl.la failed sanity test (reference to workdir or 
installed)
ERROR: QA issue: libgdbm.la failed sanity test (reference to workdir or 
installed)
ERROR: QA issue: libfakeroot.la failed sanity test (reference to workdir 
or installed)


perl-5.8.8 build failed. Detail in the attached log file.


Gordon