Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-4.4.1rc1 Build Error

[Robert H. <rih...@gm...>]

On 12/26/25 3:02 PM, Robert Howard wrote:
> On 12/26/25 8:01 AM, jbk wrote:
>> On 12/21/25 9:22 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, jbk wrote:
>>>
>>>> With BackkupPC-XS-0.63rc1 installed building BackupPC-4.4.1rc1
>>>> stalls at this point in the build process:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> + cd BackupPC-4.4.1rc1
>>>> + /usr/bin/perl configure.pl --batch --backuppc-user=backuppc ...
>>>> ...
>>>> ... --no-set-perms --uid-ignore
>>>> You need to run makeDist first to create a tarball release that
>>>> includes an updated configure.pl.? After you unpack the tarball,
>>>> run configure.pl from there.
>>>> ...
>>>> So the answer is there but I'm not sure how to fix.
>>>
>>> The Perl script makeDist has some documentation at the top which might
>>> help you.  ...........
>> ..................
>>> I believe you're trying to create a Red Hat RPM.  It's decades since I
>>> used a Red Hat system so I'm not sure what's necessary to create a RPM
>>> package from the BackupPC source.  I'd like to refresh myself but just
>>> now I can't spare the time as I'm up to my ears in rsync-bpc. I'll be
>>> happy to make any changes in the BackupPC repository in Github if it's
>>> found to be necessary to support the creation of a particular package.
>>>
>>> Richard (see the thread 'BackupPC-XS 0.63 RC1 test failure') is the
>>> person who will probably know best.  ........
>> Ged,
>> Correct, I am trying to build within the distro packaging system.
>> I did get further on the BackupPC-4.4.1rc1 build but I am now choking 
>> on a new dependency "perl-SCGI" that does not exist in the RH and 
>> derivatives src.rpm system.
>> I've copied Richard on this so If he progresses to this point, and I 
>> don't expect him to in the near future, he might share some 
>> advancement with me.
>> I did find a source rpm from an obscure distro "alt linux" but it's 
>> spec is incompatible with RH.
>> I do appreciate your efforts to advance the code.
>>
>> I am curious as to why perl-SCGI is being introduced into the code 
>> base now as it was avoided in prior releases of BackupPC. It hasn't 
>> been advanced since 2006. I'm assuming some of the SCGI functionality 
>> was written into the base BackupPC code and is now being separated.
>>
> If you look at the GIT history you will see that perl-SGCI has been in 
> the code since at least May 16, 2016 so it is not new. It is used by  
> the module  "backuppc/bin  /BackupPC_Admin_SCGI"
>
> In Mageia, SUSE and Fedora perl-SCGI is packaged as perl-CGI-Simple. 
> As RedHat is now behind a paywall I do not have access to their list 
> of packages.but it may have  the package perl-CGI-Simple.
>
> In Debian it is packaged as libcgi-simple-perl.
>
> Just because some code is old does not mean it is of no value.
>
> R.H.
>
Oops one error  I made is regarding packages. I misread something 
and perl-SGCI is not in the Mageia, SUSE and Fedora packages I mentioned 
although it is in the Debian package libscgi-perl and that would require 
a bit of conversion to make it into a suitable RPM. My apologies.

Before building you could install the SCGI module from CPAN with

'cpanm --verbose SCGI' that is assuming you have cpanm installed.

By the way the GIT history I mentioned is correct.

R.H