Actually we don't need 5.40.3

steps/manifest

@@ -192,8 +192,6 @@ build: perl-5.30.3
 build: perl-Devel-Tokenizer-C-0.11
 build: perl-5.36.3
 build: perl-Devel-Tokenizer-C-0.11
-build: perl-5.40.3
-build: perl-Devel-Tokenizer-C-0.11
 build: perl-5.42.0
 build: gperf-3.1
 build: libunistring-0.9.10

steps/perl-5.40.3/files/Compress-Raw-Zlib_config.in

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
-# 
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-
-BUILD_ZLIB      = False
-ZLIB_INCLUDE    = /usr/include
-ZLIB_LIB        = /usr/lib/i386-unknown-linux-musl
-OLD_ZLIB        = False
-GZIP_OS_CODE    = AUTO_DETECT
-USE_ZLIB_NG     = False

steps/perl-5.40.3/pass1.sh

@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-src_prepare() {
-    default
-
-    mv Compress-Raw-Zlib_config.in cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in
-
-    # Remove miscellaneous pregenerated files
-    rm -f Porting/Glossary \
-        dist/Devel-PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc Configure config_h.SH \
-        cpan/Win32API-File/cFile.pc cpan/Sys-Syslog/win32/Win32.pm \
-        dist/ExtUtils-CBuilder/Makefile.PL \
-        cpan/Test-Simple/lib/Test2/Util/HashBase.pm \
-        cpan/Term-Table/lib/Term/Table/HashBase.pm \
-        dist/Tie-File/Makefile.PL
-    rm win32/perlexe.ico
-    rm -r cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src
-
-    # Generated tests
-    rm cpan/Unicode-Collate/Collate/keys.txt
-
-    # Regenerate other prebuilt header files
-    # Taken from headers of regen scripts
-    rm -f lib/warnings.pm warnings.h regnodes.h reentr.h reentr.c \
-          overload.h opcode.h opnames.h pp_proto.h \
-          keywords.h embed.h embedvar.h perlapi.{c,h} \
-          proto.h lib/overload/numbers.pm regcharclass.h perly.{tab,h,act} \
-          mg_{raw.h,vtable.h} keywords.c l1_char_class_tab.h \
-          lib/feature.pm lib/B/Op_private.pm lib/unicore/uni_keywords.pl \
-          miniperlmain.c unicode_constants.h uni_keywords.h \
-          charclass_invlists.h ebcdic_tables.h mg_names.inc overload.inc \
-          packsizetables.inc regexp_constants.h locale_table.h scope_types.h \
-          charclass_invlists.inc
-    perl regen.pl
-    perl regen_perly.pl
-    perl regen/keywords.pl
-    perl regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl
-    perl regen/regcharclass.pl
-    perl regen/genpacksizetables.pl
-    perl regen/ebcdic.pl
-    perl regen/miniperlmain.pl
-    perl regen/unicode_constants.pl
-    perl lib/unicore/mktables -C lib/unicore -P pod -maketest -makelist -p
-    mkdir lib_unicore
-    ln -s ../lib/unicore lib_unicore/
-    perl -Ilib_unicore regen/mk_invlists.pl
-
-    # regenerate configure
-    mconf_dir=$(echo ../metaconfig*)
-    ln -s "$mconf_dir"/.package .
-    ln -s "$mconf_dir"/U .
-    touch U/modified/{d_openat.U,d_vsnprintf.U,d_sched_yield.U} # null it
-    metaconfig -m
-
-    # Glossary
-    ln -s ../perl-* "$mconf_dir"/perl
-    "$mconf_dir"/U/mkglossary > Porting/Glossary
-
-    # Remove lines from MANIFEST that we have deleted
-    while read -r line; do
-        f="$(echo "${line}" | cut -d' ' -f1)"
-        if [ -e "${f}" ]; then
-            echo "${line}"
-        fi
-    done < MANIFEST > MANIFEST.new
-    mv MANIFEST.new MANIFEST
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-    ./Configure -des \
-        -Dprefix="${PREFIX}" \
-        -Dcc=gcc \
-        -Dusedl=false \
-        -Ddate=':' \
-        -Dccflags="-U__DATE__ -U__TIME__" \
-        -Darchname="i386-linux" \
-        -Dmyhostname="(none)" \
-        -Dmaildomain="(none)"
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-    make "${MAKEJOBS}" pod/perlapi.pod
-
-    pushd dist/Devel-PPPort
-    perl devel/mkapidoc.pl
-    popd
-
-    default
-}
-
-src_install() {
-    default
-
-    # Remove messed up manpages
-    rm "${DESTDIR}/"*.0
-}

steps/perl-5.40.3/patches/Devel-PPPort-remove-sprintf.patch

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
-
-SPDX-License-Identifier: Artistic-1.0
-
-my_sprintf appears to be broken.
-This should not be necessary, but is; is most likely linked to metaconfig
-problems.
-
-diff --git perl-5.40.3/dist/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_pm.PL perl-5.40.3/dist/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_pm.PL
-index cfbfaeb8fa..f93e56df15 100644
---- perl-5.40.3/dist/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_pm.PL
-+++ perl-5.40.3/dist/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_pm.PL
-@@ -891,8 +891,6 @@ __DATA__
- 
- %include snprintf
- 
--%include sprintf
--
- %include exception
- 
- %include strlfuncs

steps/perl-5.40.3/patches/fix-debugging-re.patch

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
-
-SPDX-License-Identifier: Artistic-1.0
-
-This should not be necessary, there is something weird going on here.
-A number of #defines are hidden behind -DDEBUGGING that are required to build
-the re extension but they are not used. Not sure why, this is a bit of a hack.
-
-diff --git perl-5.40.3/ext/re/Makefile.PL perl-5.40.3/ext/re/Makefile.PL
-index 01786e1ec2..cc4619bfc3 100644
---- perl-5.40.3/ext/re/Makefile.PL
-+++ perl-5.40.3/ext/re/Makefile.PL
-@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ foreach my $tuple (@files) {
-     }
- }
- 
--my $defines = '-DPERL_EXT_RE_BUILD -DPERL_EXT_RE_DEBUG -DPERL_EXT';
-+my $defines = '-DPERL_EXT_RE_BUILD -DPERL_EXT_RE_DEBUG -DPERL_EXT -DDEBUGGING';
- my %args;
- for my $arg (@ARGV) {
-     $args{$1} = $2 if $arg =~ /^(\w+)=(.*)$/;

steps/perl-5.40.3/patches/remove-machine-generated.patch

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
-
-SPDX-License-Identifier: Artistic-1.0
-
-There is no way to regenerate this easily. It is merely a fallback for when the
-previous fails and it will not fail with our perl.
-
-diff --color -ru perl-5.40.3/cpan/Pod-Simple/lib/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm perl-5.40.3/cpan/Pod-Simple/lib/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm
---- perl-5.40.3/cpan/Pod-Simple/lib/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm	2025-07-23 21:56:14.121284638 +1000
-+++ perl-5.40.3/cpan/Pod-Simple/lib/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm	2025-07-23 22:05:05.990255330 +1000
-@@ -74,13 +74,6 @@
- my $script_run_re = eval 'no warnings "experimental::script_run";
-                           qr/(*script_run: ^ .* $ )/x';
- my $latin_re = my_qr('[\p{IsLatin}\p{IsInherited}\p{IsCommon}]', "\x{100}");
--unless ($latin_re) {
--    # This was machine generated to be the ranges of the union of the above
--    # three properties, with things that were undefined by Unicode 4.1 filling
--    # gaps.  That is the version in use when Perl advanced enough to
--    # successfully compile and execute the above pattern.
--    $latin_re = my_qr('[\x00-\x{02E9}\x{02EC}-\x{0374}\x{037E}\x{0385}\x{0387}\x{0485}\x{0486}\x{0589}\x{060C}\x{061B}\x{061F}\x{0640}\x{064B}-\x{0655}\x{0670}\x{06DD}\x{0951}-\x{0954}\x{0964}\x{0965}\x{0E3F}\x{10FB}\x{16EB}-\x{16ED}\x{1735}\x{1736}\x{1802}\x{1803}\x{1805}\x{1D00}-\x{1D25}\x{1D2C}-\x{1D5C}\x{1D62}-\x{1D65}\x{1D6B}-\x{1D77}\x{1D79}-\x{1DBE}\x{1DC0}-\x{1EF9}\x{2000}-\x{2125}\x{2127}-\x{27FF}\x{2900}-\x{2B13}\x{2E00}-\x{2E1D}\x{2FF0}-\x{3004}\x{3006}\x{3008}-\x{3020}\x{302A}-\x{302D}\x{3030}-\x{3037}\x{303C}-\x{303F}\x{3099}-\x{309C}\x{30A0}\x{30FB}\x{30FC}\x{3190}-\x{319F}\x{31C0}-\x{31CF}\x{3220}-\x{325F}\x{327F}-\x{32CF}\x{3358}-\x{33FF}\x{4DC0}-\x{4DFF}\x{A700}-\x{A716}\x{FB00}-\x{FB06}\x{FD3E}\x{FD3F}\x{FE00}-\x{FE6B}\x{FEFF}-\x{FF65}\x{FF70}\x{FF9E}\x{FF9F}\x{FFE0}-\x{FFFD}\x{10100}-\x{1013F}\x{1D000}-\x{1D1DD}\x{1D300}-\x{1D7FF}]', "\x{100}");
--}
- 
- my $every_char_is_latin_re = my_qr("^(?:$latin_re)*\\z", "A");

steps/perl-5.40.3/sources

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.40.3.tar.xz 65f63b4763ab6cb9bb3d5731dd10369e1705be3c59be9847d453eb60b349ab43
-git://github.com/Perl/metaconfig~5.42.0 https://github.com/Perl/metaconfig/archive/5.42.0.tar.gz ac3948bd684a3c017a241b6fc7b899c901f814b36d030ee79887374884e30301

steps/perl-5.42.0/pass1.sh

@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ src_prepare() {
     perl regen/miniperlmain.pl
     perl regen/unicode_constants.pl
     perl lib/unicore/mktables -C lib/unicore -P pod -maketest -makelist -p
-    perl -Ilib regen/mk_invlists.pl
+    mkdir lib_unicore
+    ln -s ../lib/unicore lib_unicore/
+    perl -Ilib_unicore regen/mk_invlists.pl
 
     # regenerate configure
     mconf_dir=$(echo ../metaconfig*)

steps/perl-5.42.0/patches/mk_invlists-remove-any.patch

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ index 5d30ee2234..f02c07a9af 100644
 @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
  #!perl
 -use v5.41.9;
-+use v5.40.3;
++use v5.36.3;
  use utf8;
  use re "/aa";
  use feature 'signatures';