mecab-devel, where are you?

To compile MySQL from srpm on AlmaLinux8, you need mecab-devel, which doesn't seem to exist. After some digging around, this is the solution I found :

sudo yum --enablerepo=powertools group install "Development Tools"
sudo yum install make gcc-c++ rpmbuild

mkdir -pv ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
wget 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4y35FiV1wh7cENtOXlicTFaRUE' -O mecab-0.996.tar.gz
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
wget https://git.almalinux.org/rpms/mecab/raw/branch/c8-stream-8.0/SPECS/mecab.spec

rpmbuild -ba mecab.spec

cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
sudo yum install mecab*.rpm

This isn't perfect. Why would someone host their code on Google drive? But it seems this is what the author wanted.

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Attribute::Handlers vs Exporter

In Perl, how does one export an attribute handler?

Do the following:

package MyAttrDecl;
use strict;
use warnings;

require Exporter;
our @EXPORT = qw( _ATTR_CODE_MyAttr );
our @ISA = qw( Exporter );

  
sub MyAttr :ATTR(CODE) 
{
    my ($package, $symbol, $referent, $attr, $data, $phase, $filename, $linenum) = @_;
    my $name = *{$symbol}{NAME};
    warn "Adding an attribute to package=$package name=$name";
}

1;

The important part is _ATTR_CODE_MyAttr. Obviously you change this to match your code.

The above is called with the following:

use MyAttrDecl;

sub new :MyAttr( "/pos/v1" )
{
    return bless {}, shift;
}