Hi, As part of the package review process, Tom 'Spot' Callaway reviewed the perl spec file[1] to bring it up to Fedora's standards. It needed a lot of work. So much work that Spot ended up essentially rewriting it. The new spec file is much cleaner and more correct, and Spot deserves mad props for fixing it. However, one change has been pretty controversial. In accordance with standard Fedora packaging, he split the C header files into a perl-devel package. These files aren't needed to run perl modules, but they are needed to build many perl modules, both in Core and Extras. Unfortunately, when I accepted the new spec file and built it into rawhide, I didn't think through the consequences fully, and we ended up breaking a lot of builds. It was generally not very obvious *why* the builds were breaking, leading to much frustration[2]. Sorry. :-( Spot, Jesse Keating, and I have discussed the issue via email and on fedora-perl-devel-list[3] - the three of us think this solution is the right way to go, but several people on the list disagree. So we're going to hash things out there and decide what to do. If you want to follow the discussion, see fedora-perl-devel-list. Otherwise, stay tuned, and we'll keep you posted. If you own a package that is failing to build in rawhide with errors like: """ make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. """ Then adding a BuildRequires: perl-devel will fix it for now - however, we might decide to roll perl-devel back into perl or make some other change that could make those changes unnecessary. Thanks, -RN [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/226276 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230608 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230406 [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-perl-devel-list/2007-March/msg00009.html P.S. - fedora-perl-devel-list is moderated, so if you want to be part of the discussion, either join the list or make it clear in the subject line that your message is not spam. ("Not spam", maybe. :-)) -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
