[aur-general] Need help with perl-extutils-f77 maintaining

[John D Jones III]

On 01/04/14 10:03, Anton Leontiev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm maintainer of 'perl-extutils-f77' package [1]. After 'unneeded'
> static libraries were removed from 'gcc-fortran' [2] my package has
> stopped passing 'check' stage. The reason is that 'perl-extutils-f77'
> searches exclusively static libraries. Please, advice me what is the
> right thing to do:
>
> 1. Ask 'gcc-fortran' maintainer to restore static libraries.
>
> 2. Patch 'perl-extutils-f77' to search dynamic libraries also. The
> advantage of this method is that all other packages depending on
> 'perl-extutils-f77' will work without modifications.
>
> 3. ExtUtils::F77 respects F77LIBS environment variable to override
> gfortan flags. And here I see two possibilities:
>
>   * Add F77LIBS to profile.d. Here I don't know how to apply this new
> variably upon package installation.
>   * Add F77LIBS to every package that depends on 'perl-extutils-f77'.
> Quick and dirty.
>
> I'll appreciate any advice.
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-extutils-f77/
> [2]
> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/gcc&id=290d38e5b48cf629c272190a1e96b60dfdd47c73
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Anton Leontiev
>

See if this patch helps:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=90845
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John D Jones III
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