Bug 604300 – dev-lang/microperl - Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language by Makefile.micro

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description sr20det 2017-01-01 10:33:12 UTC]

microperl is supposed to be a really minimal perl, even more
minimal than miniperl.  No Configure is needed to build microperl,
on the other hand this means that interfaces between Perl and your
operating system are left very -- minimal.
it's good for people learning the internals of Perl because it strips away everything but the essentials

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
succesfully tested on x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl-gcc-6.3.0



http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html

[Comment 1 sr20det 2017-01-01 10:34:34 UTC]

Created attachment 458232 [details]
microperl-5.20.2.ebuild

[Comment 2 sr20det 2017-01-01 10:36:28 UTC]

Created attachment 458234 [details, diff]
minor header fix patch

[Comment 3 sr20det 2017-01-01 10:37:06 UTC]

Created attachment 458236 [details, diff]
Makefile.patch

[Comment 4 sr20det 2017-01-01 19:23:53 UTC]

Comment on attachment 458236 [details, diff]
Makefile.patch

>diff -ru o/Makefile.micro perl-5.20.2/Makefile.micro
>--- o/Makefile.micro	2017-01-01 01:23:55.227510314 +0200
>+++ perl-5.20.2/Makefile.micro	2017-01-01 01:25:40.908336473 +0200
>@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
>-LD = $(CC)
>+LD ?= $(CC)
> CCFLAGS = -c
> DEFINES = -DPERL_CORE -DPERL_MICRO -DSTANDARD_C -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV \
> 	  -DNO_MATHOMS
>-OPTIMIZE = 
>-CFLAGS = $(DEFINES) $(OPTIMIZE)
>-LDFLAGS = 
>+OPTIMIZE = 
>+CFLAGS += $(DEFINES) $(OPTIMIZE)
>+LDFLAGS += 
> LIBS = -lm
> _O = .o
> ENV = env
>@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
> 	uregcomp$(_O) uregexec$(_O) urun$(_O) \
> 	uscope$(_O) usv$(_O) utaint$(_O) utoke$(_O) \
> 	unumeric$(_O) ulocale$(_O) umathoms$(_O) \
>-	uuniversal$(_O) uutf8$(_O) uutil$(_O) uperlapi$(_O) ukeywords$(_O)
>+	uuniversal$(_O) uutf8$(_O) uutil$(_O) uperlapi$(_O) ukeywords$(_O) \
>+	caretx$(_O)
> 
> microperl:	$(O)
> 	$(LD) -o $@ $(O) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
>@@ -64,6 +65,9 @@
> 
> # The microperl objects.
> 
>+caretx$(_O):	$(HE) caretx.c
>+	$(CC) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ $(CFLAGS) caretx.c
>+
> uav$(_O):	$(HE) av.c
> 	$(CC) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ $(CFLAGS) av.c
>

[Comment 5 Jonas Stein 2017-01-01 20:23:44 UTC]

Thank you for your contribution. 
Are you interested in proxy maintaining this package?

I suggest to write 
SRC_URI="
	mirror://cpan/src/5.0/${MY_P}.tar.bz2
"
in one line.



HOMEPAGE="http://www.perl.org/"
HOMEPAGE should contain a URL about the installed software. Perl is a bit too broad.


eerror "${CHOST} is not yet supported..		But you can fix this!"

This line should be removed before the ebuild gets in the tree.

[Comment 6 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2017-01-28 23:52:25 UTC]

Out of curiosity, would any of the patches we apply to dev-lang/perl be useful here?

- Patches: https://github.com/gentoo-perl/perl-patchset
- Derived Sources: https://github.com/gentoo-perl/perl5

Though you seem more equipped to understand how microperl works so are probably better of taking maintenance through proxy.

[Comment 7 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2017-01-28 23:57:07 UTC]

BTW, for a DESCRIPTION, I'd shy away from what you have, and opt instead for something more like: "An ultra minimalist subset of Perl as a standalone language" or similar.

As it is, "Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language" doesn't really say much useful, and its a backronym, and I feel like everyone who reads it learns something wrong which I have to then later unteach them of.

[Comment 8 Andreas K. Hüttel 2021-04-24 11:32:01 UTC]

Please consider maintaining this in GURU yourself.