Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:59:48 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: Studded@dal.net Cc: FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/sirc Message-ID: <199809160659.XAA03205@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <35FF5CA8.322A8AB1@dal.net> (message from Studded on Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:37:28 -0700)
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* I realize that you have a lot going on with both the elf and perl
* conversions happening at once. I didn't mean for my comments about the
* elf libraries to be inflammatory, but reconsidering what may have been a
* bad choice at this stage in the process is better than regretting it
* much later IMO.
The problem is that many people (including authors of software we're
porting) have no idea how the shared library versions work. :<
* The problem with this is that any port on a -Stable system that makes
* use of the PERL5 variable (like you tried to do with mine) will have to
* be reinstalled every time the perl version is bumped.
You're right. I shouldn't have changed yours, since yours just uses
perl as an interpreter and doesn't install anything to
version-specific directories.
But in general, having to reinstall stuff is just the way of life for
the new perl5 (not that I like it, mind you). They have incompatible
binaries between releases, and manpages are installed in
micro-version-specific directories, etc.
* I'd like to have a
* variable similar to what I used in my port that points to the 'perl5'
* link in either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin (Ok, ${PREFIX}/bin). Something
* like this would work, other solutions are possible of course.
Hmm. I don't think it is necessary to have it in bsd.port.mk given
the nature of the problem (it doesn't apply to most ports). If
someone can prove me wrong, I can put it in, of course.
* Meanwhile, I'd appreciate it if someone would apply the following patch
* to my port. It passes portlint, etc.
* -post-extract: <====
* +pre-extract: <====
* +post-extract: <====
* +.if exists(/usr/bin/perl5)
* +SHORT_PERL5=/usr/bin/perl5
* +.else
* +SHORT_PERL5=${PREFIX}/bin/perl5
* +.endif
* +
You don't need to do this (the lines marked with "<===="). Make
variable assignments are not part of the target.
I changed that part and committed it. Thanks!
Satoshi
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