xkcd-viewer being stubborn both on -current and stable

[daemonfowl]

Hi all !
Frankly I don't know for sure , whether it's xkcd-viewer who's being mulish or me being a fool -as usual- hehe ..

Well I just failed to build the port on OpenBSD stable and current :

p5-ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.13: ok
===> Returning to build of p5-Gtk2-1.221p5
===> p5-Gtk2-1.221p5 depends on: p5-ExtUtils-PkgConfig-* -> p5-ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.13
===> p5-Gtk2-1.221p5 depends on: p5-Glib2->=1.200 - not found
===>  Verifying install for p5-Glib2->=1.200 in devel/p5-Glib2
===>  p5-Glib2-1.222p3  is marked as broken: glib2 is threaded but our perl is not so we end up with undefined symbols .
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/x11/p5-Gtk2 (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1978 '/usr/ports/pobj/p5-Gtk2-1.221/.dep-STEM-ge-1.200-devel-p5-Glib2')
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/x11/p5-Gtk2 (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2393 '/usr/ports/pobj/p5-Gtk2-1.221/.extract_done')
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/x11/p5-Gtk2 (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1804 '/usr/ports/packages/i386/all/p5-Gtk2-1.221p5.tgz')
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/x11/p5-Gtk2 (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2343 '_internal-package')
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/x11/p5-Gtk2 (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2323 'package')
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/x11/p5-Gtk2 (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1821 '/var/db/pkg/p5-Gtk2-1.221p5/+CONTENTS')
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/x11/p5-Gtk2 (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2323 'install')
*** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1978 '/usr/ports/pobj/xkcd-viewer-0.1/.dep-x11-p5-Gtk2')
*** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2393 '/usr/ports/pobj/xkcd-viewer-0.1/.extract_done')
*** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1804 '/usr/ports/packages/i386/all/xkcd-viewer-0.1p0.tgz')
*** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2343 '_internal-package')
*** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2323 'package')
*** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1821 '/var/db/pkg/xkcd-viewer-0.1p0/+CONTENTS')
*** Error 1 in /usr/ports/misc/xkcd-viewer (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2323 'install')

Thanks for illumination!

[jggimi]

The root cause:

===> p5-Glib2-1.222p3 is marked as broken: glib2 is threaded but our perl is not so we end up with undefined symbols .

How long has this port been broken?

---------------------------- 
revision 1.14
date: 2010/04/22 19:36:05;  author: ajacoutot;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1 
Mark as BROKEN for now. 
----------------------------

[jggimi]

To elaborate further:

I discovered the root cause of the failure to build by reading the error message you copied and pasted into your post.

I looked up the history of the port using cvs(1):

$ cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-Glib2
$ cvs log Makefile | less

[thirdm]

Haven't tried this myself, but if you really want to get this working (other than by fixing the port yourself somehow), you could try installing a second, non-system perl with threading enabled. I see on chromatic's blog he recommends a tool named perlbrew for this sort of thing: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/20...-perlbrew.html

[daemonfowl]

Thanks jggimi for all support ! unthreaded Puffish Perl ?
Thanks thirdm !
I've installed perlbrew and am installing perl-5.16.0 latest stable .. or should I rather install bleeding edge version ? how can I possibly install xkcd-viewer afterwards ?

[daemonfowl]

$  tail -f ~/perl5/perlbrew/build.perl-5.16.0.log
../dist/IO/t/io_file.t ............................................ ok
../dist/IO/t/io_file_export.t ..................................... ok
../dist/IO/t/io_linenum.t ......................................... ok
# Test process timed out - terminating
../dist/IO/t/io_multihomed.t ...................................... 
Failed 8/8 subtests 
../dist/IO/t/io_pipe.t ............................................ ok
../dist/IO/t/io_poll.t ............................................ ok
../dist/IO/t/io_sel.t ............................................. ok
accept failed: Connection timed out at t/io_sock.t line 60.

[thirdm]

Sorry, can't help much from here since I've never tried to install a non-system perl.If you can get the second perl working, I was going to say you'd install the xkcd reader directly from cpan using one of the cpan clients (cpan, cpan plus, cpan minus, etc. -- okay, I'm not sure there really is an "etc." here but probably). But looking at the port, it doesn't look like the viewer on cpan. Compare

http://www.autistici.org/fox/files/XKCD_viewer/README (the one the port uses)

to

http://search.cpan.org/~woldrich/App-xkcd-0.082/xkcd (an app on cpan I assumed for a moment the port must be based on)

Looks like different programs. Maybe instead of going down the route of getting a second perl you could try installing this other xkcd viewer directly from cpan. It doesn't seem to have as difficult prerequisites.