perlmenu fails with apps that try to use getcap(): Curses function 'getcap' is not defined by your vendor at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/perlmenu.pm line 382. To workaround this, you can edit /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/perlmenu.pm and uncomment the Perl 5 broken getcap() section. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install dev-perl/perlmenu 2. Extract the demo program from the package 3. Comment out line 25 (require "./menuutil.pl"; ...); it's not required for this test 4. Run the demo program. Pipe it to cat -v to see the error. N.B.: The above will corrupt your terminal requiring a 'reset'. Actual Results: The error message was produced. Expected Results: The demo menu program should have ran. There's a workaround and that's to uncomment this section in perlmenu.pm: # PERL5 ONLY (GETCAP PROBLEMS) # Uncomment these statements if you DON'T have "getcap()" OR # if the demo doesn't appear to work (there's a bug in some getcap's). # if ($] >= 5.001) { # Perl5 ONLY! # package Perl5::Menu_PL::Compat; # Don't pollute perlmenu.pm namespace # require Term::Cap; # Get Tgetent package # $term = Tgetent Term::Cap { OSPEED => 9600 }; # Define entry # sub perlmenu::getcap { $term->{"_" . shift()} }; # Define local subroutine # }
I am going to remove perlmenu. It's not used by any package. Can't find it in CPAN.
(In reply to comment #1) > I am going to remove perlmenu. It's not used by any package. Can't find it in > CPAN. > I have no problem with the removal but have some notes and questions to the package-masked-message when trying "emerge -p perlmenu": - dev-perl/perlmenu-4.0 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org> (20 Apr 2010) # Bundles a copy of libsqlite (#258464) # Tests fail (#294218) I can't see a bundled libsqlite or any connection to the dev-perl/DBD-SQLite2 package of bugs #258464 and #294218. A bug in portage or wrong syntax in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? # (23 Apr 2010) # Requested but never used (#136223) # and does not work (#242524), HOMEPAGE dead Yes the HOMEPAGE seems dead but the source is still in cpan archive: http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SK/SKUNZ/perlmenu.v4.0.tar.gz As I use perlmenu in some of my scripts I created an ebuild and a patch for the getcap problem in my local overlay. For those interested I'll attach them below.
Created attachment 230709 [details] Ebuild with new SRC_URI and getcap patch
Created attachment 230711 [details, diff] getcap patch
(In reply to comment #2) > I have no problem with the removal but have some notes and questions to the > package-masked-message when trying "emerge -p perlmenu": > - dev-perl/perlmenu-4.0 (masked by: package.mask) > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org> (20 Apr 2010) > # Bundles a copy of libsqlite (#258464) > # Tests fail (#294218) > I can't see a bundled libsqlite or any connection to the dev-perl/DBD-SQLite2 > package of bugs #258464 and #294218. A bug in portage or wrong syntax in > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? My fault. I was adding all the perl package removals to one entry. he first two lines belong to the DBD-SQLite2 removal. I wasn't aware that it doesn't work as expected. I'll never do it again. Thanks > As I use perlmenu in some of my scripts I created an ebuild and a patch for the > getcap problem in my local overlay. For those interested I'll attach them > below. Thanks again.
Gone.
