Bug 101073 – libwww rdepends on perl, but doesn't use perl

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Håvard Sørbø 2005-08-02 02:31:15 UTC]

Doesn't seem like libwww requires perl, still it depends on it 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
emerge -epvt libwww 
 



Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (uclibc/x86, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, uclibc-0.9.27-r0, 
2.6.10-5-686 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.10-5-686 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 
distcc 2.18.3 i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[enabled] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5 
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6 
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CBUILD="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" 
CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -m32" 
CHOST="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distcc distlocks nodoc noinfo noman sandbox 
sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15" 
MAKEOPTS="-j8" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 bash-completion libwww minimal mysql ncurses python slang ssl uclibc 
zaptel zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_uclibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2005-08-02 02:49:04 UTC]

libwww uses the perl eclass.
the perl eclass depends on perl.
ergo, libwww depends on perl.

libwww-perl*: inherit perl-module
perl-module.eclass: DEPEND=">=dev-lang/perl-5.8.2
!<perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.17"

[Comment 2 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2005-08-02 02:56:34 UTC]

That's dev-perl/libwww-perl, not net-libs/libwww. net-libs/libwww RDEPENDS on
perl directly, and doesn't inherit any perl eclasses.

[Comment 3 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2005-08-02 03:04:28 UTC]

And a quick test shows that it does need perl ("configure: error: Perl needs to
be installed in order to compile libwww")... Perhaps it should be DEPEND only,
but it should certainly not be removed completely as this bug seems to ask.

[Comment 4 Håvard Sørbø 2005-08-02 03:45:23 UTC]

I can't find any references to perl except in the configure/Makefiles, so this 
should probably be DEPEND not RDEPEND as suggested 
   
(In reply to comment #3)   
> And a quick test shows that it does need perl ("configure: error: Perl needs   
to   
> be installed in order to compile libwww")... Perhaps it should be DEPEND   
only,   
> but it should certainly not be removed completely as this bug seems to ask.   
   
   

[Comment 5 Håvard Sørbø 2005-08-02 03:52:25 UTC]

equery files libwww | awk '{print $1}' | grep so$ | xargs ldd | grep libperl | 
wc -l 
0 
 
equery files libwww | grep "usr/bin/" | xargs ldd | grep libperl | wc -l 
0 
 
cat /usr/bin/libwww-config | grep perl | wc -l 
0 

[Comment 6 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2005-10-31 03:27:17 UTC]

Thanks for the report. This is fixed now in CVS.