panda refuses to install

[chtonic]

Error: org.macports.destroot for port panda returned: no files matched glob pattern "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_panda/panda/work/.home/.perl6/short/*"

Also cleaned before building, and a new version was fetched.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please use WikiFormatting.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I'll investigate, but I would be super grateful if Will as an actual Perl6 user would check. It's quite possible that Panda stayed behind after a year of progress with Perl 6: it seems that Panda hasn't seen a new release since February, while new Perl6 packages get released each month.

The error looks like something trivial to fix in the Portfile (even though I'm not sure I understand what exactly changed), so hopefully this should not be too difficult, perhaps deleting a single line should help. I'll update MoarVM, nqp, rakudo first and then take a look at panda.

Also, if someone else comes up with a patch, I won't mind :)

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

The problem lies in the following code:

foreach d {dist resources short sources} {
    xinstall -d -m 0755 ${destroot}/${perl6_share}/${d}
    foreach f [glob -type f ${src}/${d}/*] {
        xinstall -W ${src}/${d} ${f} ${destroot}/${perl6_share}/${d}
    }
}

The four dirs used to contain just plain files. Now perl6 apparently installs folders rather than files to short and

foreach f [glob -type f ${src}/${d}/*] {

doesn't find any regular files when ${d} equals short (all of them are dirs). I probably need some help coming up with a proper syntax to fix this.

Then again it's still not clear to me what exactly panda installation is supposed to do. I would prefer to have some perl6 expert available ...

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

In 692e5c4297e786565c72f22672b4b44a255f97fc/macports-ports (master):

panda: delete port

The upstream development has been abandoned, calling zef a replacement.
It also no longer works with recent versions of rakudo.

Closes: #50158
Closes: #50957
Closes: #53397
Closes: #62761