I read the man page and I tried searching, but either my search skills have significantly deteriorated or search engines have, because I have trouble now finding any technical answers on google/etc regardless of the question.

With MakeMaker, one can set the CFLAGS with OPTIMIZE="whatever" as an environmental variable when running perl Makefile.PL

It then gets put in the generated Makefile

With perl Build.PL which does not use make I can not figure out how to do the equivalent.

It must be simple, I just can't find it.

Thank you for suggestions.

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I decided to open an account here after seeing so many posts, all with the same characteristics:

• Corinna is great
• It will happen
• This post is at least 3 years old

What’s going on? Why is implementation so slow? What can be done to help?

I see many discussions and many people holding things back with condescending arguments and fear of change. It’s clear (and if it’s not clear to the kind reader, then I think there’s a problem with you) that Perl is in trouble and dying from a lack of new developers. One of the main reasons is the absence of a decent object system, and a native one, not a module.

So much has been said about Corinna, so much work has been done, and yes, it’s great as it is, but it’s experimental. Over the past year, we’ve gained what — new writers? Where’s everything that was planned? Destruct blocks, custom constructors, custom readers and writers, :common, etc.

To make it popular, we need it. We need more people using it, and for that, we need it in the language — not as an experimental feature. So much time has been invested in decision-making, but no language is perfect. We just need it. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

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TL:DR I'm in the process of writing a 'long now' document packing system, built to convey my and my descendants digital family archives into 24nd century(1). Looking at IT history I see that I can't rely an most things 'being there' in the decades to come, developers come and go, communities disperse, operating systems and CPU architectures change so old binarys have to be nursed along with emulators (Things fall apart; the CentOS cannot hold...). Taking a really pessimistic view I think only ASCII(+UTF-8) and HTML made of basic paragraph, tables and hyperlinks to be so deeply embedded that future software will need to be backwards compatible (and failing that can be simply be converted to UTF-64).

So I'm looking for a minimal Perl source code distribution that someone in the after the Death of Perl (Film at 11) can compile to extend the life of my codebase without having to rewrite it.

Longer version
I'm trying to minimize dependency's by writing scripts that build a ultrabasic static HTML website accessible via webserver, filesystem (and future AI). As a simple website it can be copied to archive.org as another strand of preservation (though storing it as a .zip, the wayback machine does bad things to the underlying structure of stored websites).

I'm working on the base assumption that my descendants will be non technical folk, able to run the command line file import and site building scripts with little understanding of how they work or how to maintain them. So I have a site built from data in easily editable textfile and the Perl code to use a minimum of CPAN modules. One day Perl may fall out of use(2), on that dark day they won't be able to update the collections, but since it's all HTML everything remains accessible and easy to copy forwards

However what I can do is throw a bone to a geeky decedent (or paid developer). So I document the system and surround the import and building scrips with a test framework so they can replicate it in their own pet language. I can also help by adding minimal a Perl source code distribution (and make sure the few modules I use are written in pure Perl and work with it). So when we see the end of ARM/IBM they could go for a recompile rather than a rewrite.

PS the obvious answer is pack it in Docker or the like, which has two problems 1) Docker et al isn't stable in the 'long now' 2) I'm aiming at a demographic who are only able to run a command line (that has been written down for them), copy a file system and can't be bothered to work out how to set up Docker.

(1) this is hubris, but I know for a fact that if I do nothing everything is certain to end up in /dev/null
(2) so could Python3 (botching it's jump from 3 to 4 in the same way it botched 2 to 3), or any language could fall by the wayside. How long will COBOL hang on in banking?

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My wife and have a hobby-level online radio station and we use Logitech Media Server as the backend. As part of what we use we're running a plug-in called Spicefly Sugarcube, which interacts with a "brain" called MusicIP. MusicIP allows music suggestions to be called using an API, which is basically what Sugarcube is doing, and it builds a URL with the very last element being "recipe," which is a filter built into MusicIP that helps shape the direction the songs go.

The issue is I'd like to replace the recipe section of this plug in with a fixed array that cycles through to emulate a radio format clock. I realize that by doing this under the hood I lose the functionality of changing the recipes on the fly, but that's okay.

The program is driven by the plugin.pm file located here:

bitbucket.org/spicefly/sugarcu…

I know nothing about Perl so tried to have ChatGPT alter this to replace the recipe section with a fixed array, It returned the upper part of the file this way, with no other changes, and the plug in won't load like this:

#v6.01 - December 2023

#+===================+

#Licencing Requirements Removed

#Released as Open Source under the GNU General Public License v3.0

#

#In Short Summary

#Complete source code must be made available that includes all changes

#Copyright and license notices must be preserved.

#Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights.

package Plugins::SugarCube::Plugin;

# Define the recipe sequence array

my u/recipe_sequence = ('5s', '4s', '5s', '5s', '4s', '5s', '4s', '5s', '5s', '4s', '5s', '4s', '5s', '5s', '4s', '5s', '5s', '4s');

my $recipe_index = 0;

# Function to get the next recipe in sequence

sub get_next_recipe {

my $recipe = $recipe_sequence[$recipe_index];

$recipe_index = ($recipe_index + 1) % u/recipe_sequence; # Loop back to the start

return $recipe;

}

use base qw(Slim::Plugin::Base);

use strict;

use Slim::Utils::Misc;

use Slim::Utils::Prefs;

use Slim::Utils::Log;

my $log = Slim::Utils::Log->addLogCategory(

{

'category' => 'plugin.sugarcube',

# 'defaultLevel' => 'WARN',

'defaultLevel' => 'DEBUG',

'description' => getDisplayName(),

}

);

So my question is, is this possible, and is the kernel of how to make it work here, or is there a better way to do it? If you look at the original plugin.pm file you'll see how the URL is built, and I really just want the very end of the URL to be &recipe=5s or %recipe=4s depending on the sequence I enter. Any help it appreciated!

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The URI module took a short holiday, but quickly returned. Just for giggles, I'd like to see everyone react (positivily) to u/oalders in the Github issue:

• Can we get 100 reactions?
• Can we get all the reactions (so, thumbs down is really just for completeness)
• Can we star the heck out of the libperl-www repo?

There are people who take care of things so most people never notice when something goes wrong, and from the time I reported this to resolution was three hours (although the issue was already known, I think). That's some pretty good support right there, and we should fête over that.

For what it's worth, GitHub pays attention to these things. When I filed an issue about getting them to think about putting Perl in their Advisory Database, the number of reactions that issue got made them think about it (right now it's a whole process with scheduling dev time, etc). One of the ways to show that Perl is alive is to react to Perl things (um, that deserve it, not bot spam!).

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Hello,

I'm trying to install Request Tracker and in the process am receiving an error that states:

Some dependencies were missing:
DBD::mysql >= 2.1018, != 4.042 ................... MISSING

I'm lost. How to do I resolve this?

Thank you!

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Mo utilities for email.

Changes for 0.02 - 2024-04-26T23:02:53+02:00

• Add tests for error parameters.
• Rewrite the tests so that the functional tests are first and then the errors.