Bugzilla Bug 125535

I have seen this issue with sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8, but I would assume it
applies to other perl/libperl versions, as well.

On PA7200 systems, uname -a returns a string similar to the following:

hamal ~ # uname -a
Linux hamal 2.6.15.1-pa4-livecd32 #1 Sun Feb 19 07:39:43 UTC 2006 parisc PA7200
(PCX-T') 9000/777/C110 GNU/Linux

The problem here is the single-quote (') character in the "(PCX-T')" portion of
the string.  When running the Configure script in the toplevel perl source
directory, the $myuname variable in the generated config.sh becomes:


myuname='linux hamal 2.6.15.1-pa4-livecd32 #1 sun feb 19 07:39:43 utc 2006
paris
c pa7200 (PCX-T') 9000777c110 gnulinux '


Obviously, since the single-quote character is not escaped, this string
confuses the shell.  As a result, makedepend fails with an error, as the shell
does not know how to handle the "extra" characters on this line.

For now, I have created a patch against Configure that applies a simple sed
expression to remove (PCX-T') from the above string when compiling on hppa, so
that libperl-5.8.8 will compile on my system.   But there probably exists a
more elegant way to solve this problem.  I am open to suggestions.

Created an attachment (id=88201) [edit]
libperl-5.8.8 hppa1.1 uname patch

Here is one possible fix, it removes the single quote (') from the uname -a
output

In CVS. thanks a lot !