Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:17:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make index breaks at top level Message-ID: <XFMail.981215111711.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812150934380.28787-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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On 15-Dec-98 Steve Price wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, John Baldwin wrote:
>
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># I do have perl5 installed, and I did patch the Makefile to expressly use
># perl5,
># which worked for me. I don't know if it would break elegance, but here is
># the
># simple patch that will let 2.2.x machines with perl5 installed make the
># index.
># It does assume that perl5 is in the path, and I'm not sure that 3.x has a
># /usr/bin/perl5. Oh, well. It's not that big of a deal.
>#
> [patch elided]
>
> How about this patch instead?
>
> Index: make_index
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/templates/make_index,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -r1.1 make_index
> --- make_index 1998/12/12 07:41:49 1.1
> +++ make_index 1998/12/15 15:33:25
> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
> # fixes up the build-depends and run-depends list, and writes
> # out the new INDEX file.
>
> +require 5.002;
> +
> # Helper function to map a directory to a pkgname.
> sub by_path {
> my $name = shift;
Works for me as it will offer an explanation for any stable users who wonder
why it breaks. I just wish perl4 would recognize the line and print out a
useful error message. Thanks.
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