OpenIndiana Distribution

I have solution how to update illumos-gate for perl transition.

1. we have to install perl-5.10 and perl-5.12 to the build system - have been done by OI-experimental userland.

2. have to update illumos-gate for building 2 version of modules.

DIFF:
igor@srv242:/myshare/builds/illumos-gate/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/perl$ hg diff
diff r debf50957085 usr/src/cmd/perl/Makefile
-- a/usr/src/cmd/perl/Makefile Wed Oct 19 16:31:52 2011 0400
++ b/usr/src/cmd/perl/Makefile Thu Oct 20 14:00:54 2011 +0400
@ -32,7 +32,7 @
test := TARGET = test

1. PERL_LEGACY is versions of Perl still delivered through ON
   -PERL_VERSIONS = 5.10.0
   +PERL_VERSIONS = 5.10.0 5.12

.PARALLEL: $(PERL_VERSIONS)

diff r debf50957085 usr/src/cmd/perl/contrib/Sun/Solaris/PerlGcc/Makefile.PL
-- a/usr/src/cmd/perl/contrib/Sun/Solaris/PerlGcc/Makefile.PL Wed Oct 19 16:31:52 2011 0400
++ b/usr/src/cmd/perl/contrib/Sun/Solaris/PerlGcc/Makefile.PL Thu Oct 20 14:00:54 2011 +0400
@ -48,6 +48,9 @
my $arch = qx{uname -p}; chomp($arch);
my $pver = sprintf('%vd', $^V);

# workaround for 5.12
$pver = '5.12' if ($pver =~ /5.12/);
+ # Figure out the appropriate Config.pm. Use an older version if necessary.
my $perlarch = ($arch eq "sparc") ? "sun4-solaris-64int":"i86pc-solaris-64int";

(This workaround not need if we update userland-perl-5.12 package for using full perl version - 5.12.3)

3. have to prepare new manifest for perl-5.12 - if need - I can attach. - library-perl-5-sun-solaris.mf

4. have to prepare manifest for perl-5.10 without man pages - for removing conflicts between 5.10 and 5.12 - I can attached library-perl-510-sun-solaris.mf

By result - we have different packages with illumos perl modules for different perl.

next steps will be later:

5. have to update userland-gate perl-5.10 manifest - remove link to /usr/bin/perl

6. have to update userland-gate perl-5.12 manifest - add link to /usr/bin/perl

7. rebuild userland packages with perl-5.12

If we update pkg in /dev to the 173 backport, then we can use mediated symlinks - to let the user select which perl is symlinked.

Josef Sipek wrote:

If we update pkg in /dev to the 173 backport, then we can use mediated symlinks - to let the user select which perl is symlinked.

That's probably the wrong approach to provide a stable interpreter for perl scripts included in the distribution. As far as pkg goes, it has some problems with links and linting in the code we've got (including the latest updates tracked for stable). We should fix the packaging in moving to perl 5.12 as the system perl.