Bug 521824 – www-apps/cvsweb-3.0.6-r1 stabilization

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arttu Valo 2014-08-31 13:56:06 UTC]

Stable cvsweb is broken apparently due to changes in Perl 5.18. For example NetBSD carries a small patch which worked for me.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/www/cvsweb/patches/patch-cvsweb.cgi.diff?r1=1.1.2.1&r2=1.1.2.2&f=h

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-09-02 22:59:36 UTC]

Could you please post the error messages you get when you start cvsweb?

[Comment 2 Arttu Valo 2014-09-10 10:07:42 UTC]

Sorry for slow response and skipping the actual message, omitted it because it's the same as seen on all other platforms (non-Gentoo ones).

[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] "my" variable $tmp masks earlier declaration in same statement at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1338.
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1195, near "$v qw(hidecvsroot hidenonreadable)"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Global symbol "$v" requires explicit package name at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1197.
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Global symbol "$v" requires explicit package name at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1197.
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1276, near "}"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1289, near "}"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1295, near "}"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1302, near "}"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1312, near "}"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1336, near "}"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] syntax error at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 1338, near ""$tmp,v" }"
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi has too many errors.
[Thu Aug 28 12:44:11 2014] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Premature end of script headers: cvsweb.cgi

[Comment 3 Arttu Valo 2014-09-10 10:13:00 UTC]

Example other platform, debian, which fixed the bug around last Christmas apparently with the same patch:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733054

[Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel 2014-09-11 08:28:26 UTC]

Please stabilize www-apps/cvsweb-3.0.6-r1
Revision bump that adds a minimal Perl 5.18 compatibility patch

Target: sparc x86

[Comment 5 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2014-09-12 15:57:53 UTC]

sparc/x86 stable. All done.