* Perl nixification fixes. Oh, the humanity.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=813

pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix

@@ -1,10 +1,23 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}: derivation {
-  name = "perl-5.8.0";
+{stdenv, fetchurl, patch}:
+
+derivation {
+  name = "perl-5.8.3";
   system = stdenv.system;
+
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-      url = ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/src/5.0/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz;
-      md5 = "87cf132f1fbf23e780f0b218046438a6";
-    };
-  stdenv = stdenv;
+    url = ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/src/5.0/perl-5.8.3.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "6d2b389f8c6424b7af303f417947714f";
+  };
+
+  # This patch does the following:
+  # 1) Do use the PATH environment variable to find the `pwd' command.
+  #    By default, Perl will only look for it in /lib and /usr/lib.
+  #    !!! what are the security implications of this?
+  # 2) Force the use of <errno.h>, not /usr/include/errno.h, on Linux
+  #    systems.  (This actually appears to be due to a bug in Perl.)
+
+  srcPatch = ./patch;
+
+  inherit stdenv patch;
 }