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# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

#
# Author: Milton Woods <milton.woods@bom.gov.au>
# Date: March 22, 2017
# Author: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com>
# Date: July 21, 2016
# Author: Justin Too <justin@doubleotoo.com>
# Date: September 6, 2015
#
import os
import re
import sys
from contextlib import contextmanager

from llnl.util.lang import match_predicate
from llnl.util.symlink import symlink

from spack.operating_systems.mac_os import macos_version
from spack.package import *


class Perl(Package):  # Perl doesn't use Autotools, it should subclass Package
    """Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over
    27 years of development."""

    homepage = "https://www.perl.org"
    # URL must remain http:// so Spack can bootstrap curl
    url = "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.34.0.tar.gz"
    tags = ["windows"]

    maintainers("LydDeb")

    executables = [r"^perl(-?\d+.*)?$"]

    # see https://www.cpan.org/src/README.html for
    # explanation of version numbering scheme

    license("Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later")

    # Maintenance releases (even numbers, preferred)
    version(
        "5.38.0",
        sha256="213ef58089d2f2c972ea353517dc60ec3656f050dcc027666e118b508423e517",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.36.1",
        sha256="68203665d8ece02988fc77dc92fccbb297a83a4bb4b8d07558442f978da54cc1",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.36.0",
        sha256="e26085af8ac396f62add8a533c3a0ea8c8497d836f0689347ac5abd7b7a4e00a",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.34.1",
        sha256="357951a491b0ba1ce3611263922feec78ccd581dddc24a446b033e25acf242a1",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.34.0",
        sha256="551efc818b968b05216024fb0b727ef2ad4c100f8cb6b43fab615fa78ae5be9a",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.32.1",
        sha256="03b693901cd8ae807231b1787798cf1f2e0b8a56218d07b7da44f784a7caeb2c",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.32.0",
        sha256="efeb1ce1f10824190ad1cadbcccf6fdb8a5d37007d0100d2d9ae5f2b5900c0b4",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.30.3",
        sha256="32e04c8bb7b1aecb2742a7f7ac0eabac100f38247352a73ad7fa104e39e7406f",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.30.2",
        sha256="66db7df8a91979eb576fac91743644da878244cf8ee152f02cd6f5cd7a731689",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.30.1",
        sha256="bf3d25571ff1ee94186177c2cdef87867fd6a14aa5a84f0b1fb7bf798f42f964",
        preferred=True,
    )
    version(
        "5.30.0",
        sha256="851213c754d98ccff042caa40ba7a796b2cee88c5325f121be5cbb61bbf975f2",
        preferred=True,
    )

    # Development releases (odd numbers)
    version("5.37.9", sha256="9884fa8a4958bf9434b50f01cbfd187f9e2738f38fe1ae37f844e9950c5117c1")
    version("5.35.0", sha256="d6c0eb4763d1c73c1d18730664d43fcaf6100c31573c3b81e1504ec8f5b22708")
    version("5.33.3", sha256="4f4ba0aceb932e6cf7c05674d05e51ef759d1c97f0685dee65a8f3d190f737cd")
    version("5.31.7", sha256="d05c4e72128f95ef6ffad42728ecbbd0d9437290bf0f88268b51af011f26b57d")
    version("5.31.4", sha256="418a7e6fe6485cc713a86d1227ef112f0bb3f80322e3b715ffe42851d97804a5")

    # End of life releases
    version("5.28.0", sha256="7e929f64d4cb0e9d1159d4a59fc89394e27fa1f7004d0836ca0d514685406ea8")
    version("5.26.2", sha256="572f9cea625d6062f8a63b5cee9d3ee840800a001d2bb201a41b9a177ab7f70d")
    version("5.24.1", sha256="e6c185c9b09bdb3f1b13f678999050c639859a7ef39c8cad418448075f5918af")
    version("5.22.4", sha256="ba9ef57c2b709f2dad9c5f6acf3111d9dfac309c484801e0152edbca89ed61fa")
    version("5.22.3", sha256="1b351fb4df7e62ec3c8b2a9f516103595b2601291f659fef1bbe3917e8410083")
    version("5.22.2", sha256="81ad196385aa168cb8bd785031850e808c583ed18a7901d33e02d4f70ada83c2")
    version("5.22.1", sha256="2b475d0849d54c4250e9cba4241b7b7291cffb45dfd083b677ca7b5d38118f27")
    version("5.22.0", sha256="0c690807f5426bbd1db038e833a917ff00b988bf03cbf2447fa9ffdb34a2ab3c")
    version("5.20.3", sha256="3524e3a76b71650ab2f794fd68e45c366ec375786d2ad2dca767da424bbb9b4a")
    version("5.18.4", sha256="01a4e11a9a34616396c4a77b3cef51f76a297e1a2c2c490ae6138bf0351eb29f")
    version("5.16.3", sha256="69cf08dca0565cec2c5c6c2f24b87f986220462556376275e5431cc2204dedb6")

    extendable = True

    if sys.platform != "win32":
        depends_on("gmake", type="build")
        depends_on("gdbm@:1.23")
        # Bind us below gdbm-1.20 due to API change: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18915
        depends_on("gdbm@:1.19", when="@:5.35")
        # :5.28 needs gdbm@:1:14.1: https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=133295
        depends_on("gdbm@:1.14.1", when="@:5.28.0")
        depends_on("berkeley-db")
        depends_on("bzip2")
        depends_on("zlib-api")
        # :5.24.1 needs zlib@:1.2.8: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120134
        conflicts("^zlib@1.2.9:", when="@5.20.3:5.24.1")

    conflicts("@5.34.1:", when="%msvc@:19.29.30136")
    # there has been a long fixed issue with 5.22.0 with regard to the ccflags
    # definition.  It is well documented here:
    # https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126468
    patch("protect-quotes-in-ccflags.patch", when="@5.22.0")

    # Support zlib-ng 2.1.2 and above for recent Perl
    # Restrict zlib-ng to older versions for older Perl
    # See https://github.com/pmqs/Compress-Raw-Zlib/issues/24
    patch("zlib-ng.patch", when="@5.38 ^zlib-ng@2.1.2:")
    conflicts("^zlib-ng@2.1.2:", when="@:5.37")

    # Fix the Time-Local testase http://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2020/01/my-y2020-bug.html
    patch(
        "https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Ticket/Attachment/1776857/956088/0001-Fix-Time-Local-tests.patch",
        when="@5.26.0:5.28.9",
        sha256="8cf4302ca8b480c60ccdcaa29ec53d9d50a71d4baf469ac8c6fca00ca31e58a2",
    )
    patch(
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/costabel/fink-distributions/master/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/perl5162-timelocal-y2020.patch",
        when="@:5.24.1",
        sha256="3bbd7d6f9933d80b9571533867b444c6f8f5a1ba0575bfba1fba4db9d885a71a",
    )

    # Fix build on Fedora 28
    # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536752
    patch(
        "https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl/raw/004cea3a67df42e92ffdf4e9ac36d47a3c6a05a4/f/perl-5.26.1-guard_old_libcrypt_fix.patch",
        level=1,
        sha256="0eac10ed90aeb0459ad8851f88081d439a4e41978e586ec743069e8b059370ac",
        when="@:5.26.2",
    )

    # Enable builds with the NVIDIA compiler
    # The Configure script assumes some gcc specific behavior, and use
    # the mini Perl environment to bootstrap installation.
    patch("nvhpc-5.30.patch", when="@5.30.0:5.30 %nvhpc")
    patch("nvhpc-5.32.patch", when="@5.32.0:5.32 %nvhpc")
    patch("nvhpc-5.34.patch", when="@5.34.0:5.34 %nvhpc")
    conflicts(
        "@5.32.0:",
        when="%nvhpc@:20.11",
        msg="The NVIDIA compilers are incompatible with version 5.32 and later",
    )

    # Make sure we don't get "recompile with -fPIC" linker errors when using static libs
    conflicts("^zlib~shared~pic", msg="Needs position independent code when using static zlib")
    conflicts("^bzip2~shared~pic", msg="Needs position independent code when using static bzip2")

    # Installing cpanm alongside the core makes it safe and simple for
    # people/projects to install their own sets of perl modules.  Not
    # having it in core increases the "energy of activation" for doing
    # things cleanly.
    variant("cpanm", default=True, description="Optionally install cpanm with the core packages.")
    variant("shared", default=True, description="Build a shared libperl.so library")
    variant("threads", default=True, description="Build perl with threads support")
    variant("open", default=True, description="Support open.pm")
    variant("opcode", default=True, description="Support Opcode.pm")

    resource(
        name="cpanm",
        url="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7042.tar.gz",
        sha256="9da50e155df72bce55cb69f51f1dbb4b62d23740fb99f6178bb27f22ebdf8a46",
        destination="cpanm",
        placement="cpanm",
    )

    phases = ["configure", "build", "install"]

    def patch(self):
        # https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15544 long PATH(>1000 chars) fails a test
        os.chmod("lib/perlbug.t", 0o644)
        filter_file("!/$B/", "! (/(?:$B|PATH)/)", "lib/perlbug.t")
        # Several non-existent flags cause Intel@19.1.3 to fail
        with when("%intel@19.1.3"):
            os.chmod("hints/linux.sh", 0o644)
            filter_file("-we147 -mp -no-gcc", "", "hints/linux.sh")

    @classmethod
    def determine_version(cls, exe):
        perl = spack.util.executable.Executable(exe)
        output = perl("--version", output=str, error=str)
        if output:
            match = re.search(r"perl.*\(v([0-9.]+)\)", output)
            if match:
                return match.group(1)
        return None

    @classmethod
    def determine_variants(cls, exes, version):
        for exe in exes:
            perl = spack.util.executable.Executable(exe)
            output = perl("-V", output=str, error=str)
            variants = ""
            if output:
                match = re.search(r"-Duseshrplib", output)
                if match:
                    variants += "+shared"
                else:
                    variants += "~shared"
                match = re.search(r"-Duse.?threads", output)
                if match:
                    variants += "+threads"
                else:
                    variants += "~threads"
            path = os.path.dirname(exe)
            if "cpanm" in os.listdir(path):
                variants += "+cpanm"
            else:
                variants += "~cpanm"
            # this is just to detect incomplete installs
            # normally perl installs open.pm
            perl(
                "-e",
                "use open OUT => qw(:raw)",
                output=os.devnull,
                error=os.devnull,
                fail_on_error=False,
            )
            variants += "+open" if perl.returncode == 0 else "~open"
            # this is just to detect incomplete installs
            # normally perl installs Opcode.pm
            perl("-e", "use Opcode", output=os.devnull, error=os.devnull, fail_on_error=False)
            variants += "+opcode" if perl.returncode == 0 else "~opcode"
            return variants

    # On a lustre filesystem, patch may fail when files
    # aren't writeable so make pp.c user writeable
    # before patching. This should probably walk the
    # source and make everything writeable in the future.
    # The patch "zlib-ng.patch" also fail. So, apply chmod
    # to Makefile.PL and Zlib.xs too.
    def do_stage(self, mirror_only=False):
        # Do Spack's regular stage
        super().do_stage(mirror_only)
        # Add write permissions on files to be patched
        files_to_chmod = [
            join_path(self.stage.source_path, "pp.c"),
            join_path(self.stage.source_path, "cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Makefile.PL"),
            join_path(self.stage.source_path, "cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Zlib.xs"),
        ]
        for filename in files_to_chmod:
            try:
                perm = os.stat(filename).st_mode
                os.chmod(filename, perm | 0o200)
            except IOError:
                continue

    def nmake_arguments(self):
        args = []
        if self.spec.satisfies("%msvc"):
            args.append("CCTYPE=%s" % self.compiler.short_msvc_version)
        else:
            raise RuntimeError("Perl unsupported for non MSVC compilers on Windows")
        args.append("INST_TOP=%s" % self.prefix.replace("/", "\\"))
        args.append("INST_ARCH=\\$(ARCHNAME)")
        if self.spec.satisfies("~shared"):
            args.append("ALL_STATIC=%s" % "define")
        if self.spec.satisfies("~threads"):
            args.extend(["USE_MULTI=undef", "USE_ITHREADS=undef", "USE_IMP_SYS=undef"])
        if not self.is_64bit():
            args.append("WIN64=undef")
        return args

    def is_64bit(self):
        return "64" in str(self.spec.target.family)

    def configure_args(self):
        spec = self.spec
        prefix = self.prefix

        config_args = [
            "-des",
            "-Dprefix={0}".format(prefix),
            "-Dlocincpth=" + self.spec["gdbm"].prefix.include,
            "-Dloclibpth=" + self.spec["gdbm"].prefix.lib,
        ]

        # Extensions are installed into their private tree via
        # `INSTALL_BASE`/`--install_base` (see [1]) which results in a
        # "predictable" installation tree that sadly does not match the
        # Perl core's @INC structure.  This means that when activation
        # merges the extension into the extendee[2], the directory tree
        # containing the extensions is not on @INC and the extensions can
        # not be found.
        #
        # This bit prepends @INC with the directory that is used when
        # extensions are activated [3].
        #
        # [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::MakeMaker#INSTALL_BASE
        # [2] via the activate method in the PackageBase class
        # [3] https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/INSTALL#APPLLIB_EXP
        config_args.append('-Accflags=-DAPPLLIB_EXP=\\"' + self.prefix.lib.perl5 + '\\"')

        # Discussion of -fPIC for Intel at:
        # https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/3081 and
        # https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/4416
        if spec.satisfies("%intel"):
            config_args.append("-Accflags={0}".format(self.compiler.cc_pic_flag))

        if "+shared" in spec:
            config_args.append("-Duseshrplib")

        if "+threads" in spec:
            config_args.append("-Dusethreads")

        # Development versions have an odd second component
        if spec.version[1] % 2 == 1:
            config_args.append("-Dusedevel")

        return config_args

    def configure(self, spec, prefix):
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            return
        configure = Executable("./Configure")
        # The Configure script plays with file descriptors and runs make towards the end,
        # which results in job tokens not being released under the make jobserver. So, we
        # disable the jobserver here, and let the Configure script execute make
        # sequentially. There is barely any parallelism anyway; the most parallelism is
        # in the build phase, in which the jobserver is enabled again, since we invoke make.
        configure.add_default_env("MAKEFLAGS", "")
        configure(*self.configure_args())

    def build(self, spec, prefix):
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            pass
        else:
            make()

    @run_after("build")
    @on_package_attributes(run_tests=True)
    def build_test(self):
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            win32_dir = os.path.join(self.stage.source_path, "win32")
            with working_dir(win32_dir):
                nmake("test", ignore_quotes=True)
        else:
            make("test")

    def install(self, spec, prefix):
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            win32_dir = os.path.join(self.stage.source_path, "win32")
            with working_dir(win32_dir):
                nmake("install", *self.nmake_arguments(), ignore_quotes=True)
        else:
            make("install")

    @run_after("install")
    def symlink_windows(self):
        if sys.platform != "win32":
            return
        win_install_path = os.path.join(self.prefix.bin, "MSWin32")
        if self.is_64bit():
            win_install_path += "-x64"
        else:
            win_install_path += "-x86"
        if self.spec.satisfies("+threads"):
            win_install_path += "-multi-thread"
        else:
            win_install_path += "-perlio"

        for f in os.listdir(os.path.join(self.prefix.bin, win_install_path)):
            lnk_path = os.path.join(self.prefix.bin, f)
            src_path = os.path.join(win_install_path, f)
            if not os.path.exists(lnk_path):
                symlink(src_path, lnk_path)

    @run_after("install")
    def install_cpanm(self):
        spec = self.spec
        maker = make
        cpan_dir = join_path("cpanm", "cpanm")
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            maker = nmake
            cpan_dir = join_path(self.stage.source_path, cpan_dir)
        if "+cpanm" in spec:
            with working_dir(cpan_dir):
                perl = spec["perl"].command
                perl("Makefile.PL")
                maker()
                maker("install")

    def _setup_dependent_env(self, env, dependent_spec):
        """Set PATH and PERL5LIB to include the extension and
        any other perl extensions it depends on,
        assuming they were installed with INSTALL_BASE defined."""
        perl_lib_dirs = []
        if dependent_spec.package.extends(self.spec):
            perl_lib_dirs.append(dependent_spec.prefix.lib.perl5)
        if perl_lib_dirs:
            perl_lib_path = ":".join(perl_lib_dirs)
            env.prepend_path("PERL5LIB", perl_lib_path)
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            env.append_path("PATH", self.prefix.bin)

    def setup_dependent_build_environment(self, env, dependent_spec):
        self._setup_dependent_env(env, dependent_spec)

    def setup_dependent_run_environment(self, env, dependent_spec):
        self._setup_dependent_env(env, dependent_spec)

    def setup_dependent_package(self, module, dependent_spec):
        """Called before perl modules' install() methods.
        In most cases, extensions will only need to have one line:
        perl('Makefile.PL','INSTALL_BASE=%s' % self.prefix)
        """

        # If system perl is used through packages.yaml
        # there cannot be extensions.
        if dependent_spec.package.is_extension:
            # perl extension builds can have a global perl
            # executable function
            module.perl = self.spec["perl"].command

            # Add variables for library directory
            module.perl_lib_dir = dependent_spec.prefix.lib.perl5

            # Make the site packages directory for extensions,
            # if it does not exist already.
            mkdirp(module.perl_lib_dir)

    def setup_build_environment(self, env):
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            env.append_path("PATH", self.prefix.bin)
            return

        spec = self.spec

        if spec.satisfies("@:5.34 platform=darwin") and macos_version() >= Version("10.16"):
            # Older perl versions reject MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11 or higher
            # as "unexpected"; override the environment variable set by spack's
            # platforms.darwin .
            env.set("MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET", "10.16")

        # This is how we tell perl the locations of bzip and zlib.
        env.set("BUILD_BZIP2", 0)
        env.set("BZIP2_INCLUDE", spec["bzip2"].prefix.include)
        env.set("BZIP2_LIB", spec["bzip2"].libs.directories[0])
        env.set("BUILD_ZLIB", 0)
        env.set("ZLIB_INCLUDE", spec["zlib-api"].prefix.include)
        env.set("ZLIB_LIB", spec["zlib-api"].libs.directories[0])

    @run_after("install")
    def filter_config_dot_pm(self):
        """Run after install so that Config.pm records the compiler that Spack
        built the package with.  If this isn't done, $Config{cc} will
        be set to Spack's cc wrapper script.  These files are read-only, which
        frustrates filter_file on some filesystems (NFSv4), so make them
        temporarily writable.
        """
        if sys.platform == "win32":
            return
        kwargs = {"ignore_absent": True, "backup": False, "string": False}

        # Find the actual path to the installed Config.pm file.
        perl = self.spec["perl"].command
        config_dot_pm = perl(
            "-MModule::Loaded", "-MConfig", "-e", "print is_loaded(Config)", output=str
        )

        with self.make_briefly_writable(config_dot_pm):
            match = "cc *=>.*"
            substitute = "cc => '{cc}',".format(cc=self.compiler.cc)
            filter_file(match, substitute, config_dot_pm, **kwargs)

        # And the path Config_heavy.pl
        d = os.path.dirname(config_dot_pm)
        config_heavy = join_path(d, "Config_heavy.pl")

        with self.make_briefly_writable(config_heavy):
            match = "^cc=.*"
            substitute = "cc='{cc}'".format(cc=self.compiler.cc)
            filter_file(match, substitute, config_heavy, **kwargs)

            match = "^ld=.*"
            substitute = "ld='{ld}'".format(ld=self.compiler.cc)
            filter_file(match, substitute, config_heavy, **kwargs)

            match = "^ccflags='"
            substitute = "ccflags='%s " % " ".join(self.spec.compiler_flags["cflags"])
            filter_file(match, substitute, config_heavy, **kwargs)

    @contextmanager
    def make_briefly_writable(self, path):
        """Temporarily make a file writable, then reset"""
        perm = os.stat(path).st_mode
        os.chmod(path, perm | 0o200)
        yield
        os.chmod(path, perm)

    # ========================================================================
    # Handle specifics of activating and deactivating perl modules.
    # ========================================================================

    def perl_ignore(self, ext_pkg, args):
        """Add some ignore files to activate/deactivate args."""
        ignore_arg = args.get("ignore", lambda f: False)

        # Many perl packages describe themselves in a perllocal.pod file,
        # so the files conflict when multiple packages are activated.
        # We could merge the perllocal.pod files in activated packages,
        # but this is unnecessary for correct operation of perl.
        # For simplicity, we simply ignore all perllocal.pod files:
        patterns = [r"perllocal\.pod$"]

        return match_predicate(ignore_arg, patterns)

    @property
    def command(self):
        """Returns the Perl command, which may vary depending on the version
        of Perl. In general, Perl comes with a ``perl`` command. However,
        development releases have a ``perlX.Y.Z`` command.

        Returns:
            Executable: the Perl command
        """
        for ver in ("", self.spec.version):
            ext = ""
            if sys.platform == "win32":
                ext = ".exe"
            path = os.path.join(self.prefix.bin, "{0}{1}{2}".format(self.spec.name, ver, ext))
            if os.path.exists(path):
                return Executable(path)
        else:
            msg = "Unable to locate {0} command in {1}"
            raise RuntimeError(msg.format(self.spec.name, self.prefix.bin))

    def test_version(self):
        """check version"""
        perl = self.spec["perl"].command
        out = perl("--version", output=str.split, error=str.split)
        expected = ["perl", str(self.spec.version)]
        for expect in expected:
            assert expect in out

    def test_hello(self):
        """ensure perl runs hello world"""
        msg = "Hello, World!"
        options = ["-e", "use warnings; use strict;\nprint('%s\n');" % msg]

        perl = self.spec["perl"].command
        out = perl(*options, output=str.split, error=str.split)
        assert msg in out