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Re: [perl #74564] hints/freebsd.sh not freebsd 7+ aware

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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
April 22, 2010 12:25
Subject:
Re: [perl #74564] hints/freebsd.sh not freebsd 7+ aware
Message ID:
20100422212446.0924bc1e@pc09.procura.nl
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:38:35 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty
<doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> 
> > # New Ticket Created by  Todd Rinaldo 
> > # Please include the string:  [perl #74564]
> > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. 
> > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=74564 >
> > 
> > 
> > When running configure on FreeBSD 7+, the following error message is printed when hints are run:
> > 
> > ./hints/freebsd.sh: /usr/bin/objformat: not found
> > 
> > The reason for this is outlined in this email from Feb 2007
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-February/038523.html
> > 
> > As hints run now, it should be executing the non-a.out code, so the below patch should be applied to fix this. 
> 
> Thanks.  Applied as commit a8ca765fc246174faebe5c6c3eae7c25b571ece2

+1 for 5.12.1

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