[perl #59660] Storable-2.13 requirement breaks build on OpenSolaris

[chromatic via RT]

On Mon Oct 06 12:15:49 2008, doughera wrote:

> Trying to compile today's parrot on an up-to-date version
> of OpenSolaris:
> 
>     SunOS xxx 5.11 snv_98 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
> 
> it failed (after a while) with the following error:
> 
>     perl tools/build/pmc2c.pl --vtable
>     Storable version 2.13 required--this is only version 2.12 at
> /export/home/doughera/src/parrot/parrot-
> cc/tools/build/../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/Pmc2cMain.pm line 6.
>     BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /export/home/doughera/src/parrot/parrot-
> cc/tools/build/../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/Pmc2cMain.pm line 6.
>     Compilation failed in require at tools/build/pmc2c.pl line 10.
>     BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tools/build/pmc2c.pl line 10.
>     make: *** [vtable.dump] Error 2
> 
> The problem is that OpenSolaris ships with (a patched version of)
> perl-5.8.4.  I'm not sure why OpenSolaris is still shipping perl-
> 5.8.4, but they are.
> 
> I haven't looked at tools/build/pmc2c.pl at all to see why Storable
> 2.13 is required, nor at how large of a burden it would be to relax
> that requirement.  Such digging would take more time than I have
> available at the moment.
 
If I remember correctly, Storable 2.12 and earlier did not restore
overloading properly.  Storable's changelog suggests that version 2.18
compiles properly on older versions of Perl; if it works with Perl 5.8.4
in OpenSolaris, we could keep the dependency on 5.8.1 (or whatever) and
increase the Storable dependency to 2.18.

-- c