ack @2.140.0_1 fails destroot, looking for nonexistent .../perl5/vendor_perl/5.22

[gthb (Gunnlaugur Thor Briem)]

Just upgrading outdated today, and ack fails to complete destroot, saying:

--->  Staging ack into destroot
Error: org.macports.destroot for port ack returned: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ack/ack/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22: no such file or directory
Please see the log file for port ack for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ack/ack/main.log

Where it's looking for 5.22, there is a directory 5.16.3 instead. And indeed that's my installed perl5:

$ port installed perl5
The following ports are currently installed:
  perl5 @5.16.3_0+perl5_16 (active)

I notice that the ack port declares dependencies on perl5.16 and p5.22-file-next, which seems odd. Probably one of these two dependencies is in error?

Attaching full main.log.

[gthb (Gunnlaugur Thor Briem)]

main.log from the failing upgrade

[anowacki (Andy Nowacki)]

Cc Me!

[johnarett@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #49585.

The port was changed in r142095 to use perl5.22, but apparently that was not entirely successful. It seems to matter what variant of perl5 port you have installed. That's not ok either, since that would make ack not build reproducibly.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I'm confused. I don't understand when the following wrong version of Perl enters into equation:

Executing command line:  cd "/path/to/ack/work/ack-2.14" && /usr/bin/make -j2 -w all 
make: Entering directory `/path/to/ack/work/ack-2.14'
cp ack blib/script/ack
"/opt/local/bin/perl5.<DEFAULT_VERSION>" -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/ack
cp ConfigDefault.pm blib/lib/App/Ack/ConfigDefault.pm
cp FirstLineMatch.pm blib/lib/App/Ack/Filter/FirstLineMatch.pm

I tried adding the following into the Portfile (due to the fact that Makefile.PL is full of $(PERL)):

configure.env-append PERL=${perl5.bin}
build.env-append     PERL=${perl5.bin}

which doesn't really help, but it leads to a similar problem at the end, saying that the directory doesn't exist.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I'll continue debugging tomorrow unless someone can figure out what controls appearance of default Perl version in that part of the make process.

(I already set +perl5_22 by the time when I tested this, so I didn't notice the problem. I'm sorry for that.)

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

Fixed in r142181. To configure properly, perl5.branches must appear before perl5.setup.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Thank you. I have to fix a bunch of other ports then as well. I made the same mistake everywhere.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

The problem only affected ack which needed perl5.setup. The rest of the ports are downloaded from elsewhere (sourceforge etc.) and thus not affected.