CPAN *.so Files Missing for Perl 5.38

[rikiheck]

It appears that the *.so libraries for Perl 5.38 are simply not in the 9.0.x packages:

root@umaster:/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch# locate DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20/arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.22/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.24/aarch64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.24/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.26/aarch64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.26/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.28/aarch64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.28/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.30/aarch64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.32/aarch64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.32/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.34/aarch64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.36/aarch64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.36/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.40/aarch64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.40/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int/auto/DBI/DBI.so

Since 5.38 is the installed version on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, this seems like a problem.

[michaelherger]

That's correct. We focus on the most popular platforms (and far beyond that...). While Ubuntu is super popular on x86_64 platform, I've rarely seen it used on ARM in this community. If neither switching distribution nor running LMS in Docker are options, then you'll have to build binaries yourself.

[rikiheck]

Just to be clear, there are plenty of files in the tree for 5.38. It's just the *.so files that are missing. Why omit only that one? Surely Ubuntu LTS is a very common choice for servers, whatever the architecture.

[michaelherger]

Thanks for the heads up! That's left overs from the build script: after checking out all the code base it would remove stuff it doesn't need. For the ARM builds it would eg. remove all x86_64 binaries. Alas, for 5.38 we only have x86_64 support. Therefore there are no binaries left, but the pure Perl parts of the modules still are. I'll see whether I can improve the script to remove those folders, too.