From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 9 23:36:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17245 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17170; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:0dRmi748v8nNEfhRnPadm0eqz6dgAIsz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09504; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:34:43 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199808100634.IAA09504@gratis.grondar.za> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl and other fixes to bsd.port.mk Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:34:42 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Satoshi Asami wrote: > How about this one? It defines new variables ${PERL_VERSION} > (5.00501) and ${PERL_VER} (5.005), which are substituted for > %%PERL_VERSION%% and %%PERL_VERS%% in the PLIST. This is all cool, but I am about half-way through working on Perl5 for CURRENT, which will make all of this moot. > I also made the manpages be attached to the temporary PLIST > automatically. This means, for ports that define MAN?, the manpages > can/should be deleted from pkg/PLIST entirely. -- * As a general concept, this is really cool - there are lots of ports that could use it. > Which brings up the point, I tried a couple of p5- ports and noticed > that %%PERL_VERSION%% is only used in manpages, which don't have to be > in pkg/PLIST anymore (see * above). Should we substitute only one > variable in PLIST? Moot point when perl5 comes into Current. > By the way, while I was there, I fixed the typo in definition of OSREL > (it said "FreeBSD", duh!), changed USE_X11 to USE_XLIB and made > %%OSREL%% be substituted in PLIST too. (Which will help, for > instance, the lang/egcs port tremendously.) > > Comments welcome. I also welcome volunteers to actually carry out the > * above. :) I am working full-steam on the actual perl - if I get some time to do this I will. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message