Cannot compile Perl-5.8.6

[Devon H. O'Dell]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 13:03 +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:47:10 -0800 (PST), Christopher Scofield
> <toph at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Anybody know what's going on here? I'm having problems installing other
> > programs as well and think I just have something missing. I get this on the
> > first make command witn perl 5.8.6...
> > 
> > # make
> > `sh  cflags "optimize='-O'" toke.o`  toke.c
> >           CCCMD =  cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -
> > I/usr/local/include -O  -Wall
> > toke.c: In function `S_scan_formline':
> > toke.c:7625: invalid operands to binary +
> > toke.c:7625: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
> > toke.c:7625: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/dist/perl-5.8.6.
> > #
> > 
> > I've just installed the system and did a buildworld and new kernel with the
> > latest CVS (as of yesterday.)
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> perl-5.8.6 compile fine when using pkgsrc.  I think the patch that
> went into pkgsrc is being pushed up-stream into the main perl cvs
> tree.  You should try using pkgsrc because a lot more software
> packages compile using it currently.  There is a write up at
> http://gobsd.com/node/163  on how to get started using pkgsrc on
> DragonFly.
> 

Can you please make a list of the software packages that do not compile
in ports so that those of us who do use them for whatever reason can
work on making them actually work? That must mean that there are many
thousand software packages in ports that simply do not compile.

--Devon