build fails with "--with-perl"

[Bug Importer]

Hi all,

In recent inkscape svn (20060910):

the variable in which the linker flags for Perl are
stored is called PERL_LDFLAGS (that is specified in
some makefile.am and executed by configure)

However in inkscape/src/Makefile_insert that variable
is referred to as "PERL_LIBS". Linking something
against perl fails therefore while building inkscape.

Please rename one of both

Thanks

[Prokoudine (prokoudine)]

Originator: NO

IIRC, --with-perl switch is obsolete now. Could we remove it then?

[Hans Ulrich Niedermann (ndim)]

I have just downloaded and configured SVN trunk (https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk, Revision: 16636).

Without --with-perl, the ./configure output summary at the end said:

        Internal Python: skipped
        Internal Perl: skipped

With --with-perl, it says:

        Internal Python: skipped
        Internal Perl: yes

So I'm not quite sure --with-perl is totally obsolete (without having actually checked deeper into the makefiles).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Yes, --with-perl was never fully implemented, and is today obsolete. If someone attaches a patch to remove it, we can commit it, and close this bug.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Places to remove it includes:
 configure.ac
 src/ui/dialog/scriptdialog.cpp

[Popolon (popolon)]

This bug was filled in 2006, at this time I had too this kind of bugs compiling perl.

Today Inkscape compile without problems using --with-perl and there still are perl scripts in extensions (don't know if it really used in this case).

embed_raster_in_svg.pl
ill2svg.pl
outline2svg.pl
txt2svg.pl

are this scipt called externally or libperl partially called by inkscape ?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> there still are perl scripts in extensions (…).
>
> embed_raster_in_svg.pl
> ill2svg.pl
> outline2svg.pl
> txt2svg.pl
>
> are this scipt called externally

Yes.

> or libperl partially called by inkscape ?

No (see comment #3, #4)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

See also:
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29528848>

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Sounds like this (and "--with-python") can safely be removed. Running a test build now.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Fix committed in lp:inkscape r12172. The checks don't appear to be used anywhere, so I simply removed them.