Hi All,
After a lot of work I have successfully built the new version of perl without any errors.
As Michael had warned, there were a huge number of packages that needed to have their rootfiles updated to reflect the change in version number that is in the directory path for many files.
I have installed the iso, that resulted from my build, into my vm testbed and everything that I tested worked fine with no hiccups.
Next thing I will do is the commits for each changed package.
My understanding is that for the common packages I only need to provide the changed rootfile in the patch but for the addons I have to update the PAK_VER number if the rootfile has changed so they will have a combination of lfs and rootfile in the patch.
I will make the perl change into a series of patches, the primary one for perl and each other package will have its own patch.
This will mean that I will be sending a huge number of patches in to patchwork later today/tomorrow. If I should be doing this another way, because of the large number of packages in the series, let me know what I should do differently.
Regards,
Adolf.