#17931: inkscape broken by perl5.8 upgrade then fails to build -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: jwhowse4@… | Owner: devans@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.7.0 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Port: inkscape | -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Changes (by devans@…): * status: new => closed * resolution: => fixed Comment: Have verified the build problem on my my system as well. It does appear that the upgrade to perl5.8 5.8.9 broke the experimental support for perl scripting in inkscape 0.46. However, this functionality has been declared obsolete upstream and the scripting support in version 0.46 was removed from trunk svn in March of 2008 in favor of a new language binding scheme that supports Python, Ruby and Java only. Since a 0.46.1 release incorporating these changes is scheduled for March 2009, rather than try and patch the existing code, I have just disabled the Perl scripting feature and incremented the revision to force a rebuild to remove any references to the 5.8.8 library. For a look at what's coming, try inkscape-devel which is built from a recent revision of the upstream svn trunk and includes the new scripting language binding scheme (among many other improvements and changes). Don't forget to deactivate inkscape before installing inkscape-devel. Committed in r45265. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17931#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS