On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:03:33 +0000, DimStar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

- perl-SDL: Fails to build

As I understood from a fellow coder, SDL fails because Alien::SDL does not install because of missing deps, and checksum issues on the files it downloads. Archive::Extract and Text::Patch were missing and had to be installed by hand to get the test running, after which the test failed with ###WARN## checksum for file download/jpegsrc.v8b.tar.gz is 34e86575444c59bef6c4c65e14e7188defbc547a but we expect 15dc1939ea1a5b9d09baea11cceb13ca59e4f9df I never used SDL, and maybe SDL is not supported on modern Linux. Its last update was May 2018. Last update for Alien::SDL (building, finding and using SDL binaries) was February 2015. From the docs: --8<--- NAME: SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer for Perl DESCRIPTION SDL_perl is a package of Perl modules that provide both functional and object oriented interfaces to the Simple DirectMedia Layer for Perl 5. This package takes some liberties with the SDL API, and attempts to adhere to the spirit of both the SDL and Perl. This document describes the low-level functional SDL Perl API. For the object oriented programming interface please see the documentation provided on a per-class basis. -->8--- -- H.Merijn Brand https://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.37 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and Linux https://tux.nl/email.html http://qa.perl.org https://www.test-smoke.org