From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Mar 31 20:22:37 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE50F7DC36 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:22:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp.rcn.com (smtp.rcn.com [69.168.97.78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE6E174CB5 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:22:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) X_CMAE_Category: , , X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=SsPS07G0 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=9TgA2UwI6Wy+6BV4wQM/cQ==:117 a=9TgA2UwI6Wy+6BV4wQM/cQ==:17 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=XRQyMpdBKAEA:10 a=v2DPQv5-lfwA:10 a=48faUk6PgeAA:10 a=OA2lqS22AAAA:8 a=wBlJuDIU8YtXfV3-c5cA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=T_IqRAL-X98A:10 a=047cQLXTEfCjWPUe_kQW:22 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine X-Authed-Username: cm9iZXJ0aHVmZkByY24uY29t Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com header.from=roberthuff@rcn.com; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.mail=roberthuff@rcn.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.user=roberthuff; auth=pass (PLAIN) Received-SPF: softfail (smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com: transitional domain rcn.com does not designate 209.6.230.48 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.6.230.48] ([209.6.230.48:41897] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp.rcn.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.25.56547 r(Core:3.6.25.0)) with ESMTPSA (cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384) id 54/51-15426-50EEFBA5; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:22:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <23231.60932.88889.811581@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:22:28 -0400 From: Robert Huff To: Christoph Moench-Tegeder Cc: Robert Huff , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl help needed In-Reply-To: <20180331193720.GB49814@elch.exwg.net> References: <23230.34285.577403.66846@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20180330194344.GA75894@elch.exwg.net> <23231.49189.726411.702039@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20180331193720.GB49814@elch.exwg.net> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 25.3.1 (amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:22:37 -0000 Christoph Moench-Tegeder writes: > ## Robert Huff (roberthuff@rcn.com): > > > On a system with over 850 ports, 32 starting with "p5-", the > > list of dependent ports portmaster created from > > "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.24" was over 200, including things like > > FireFox and llvm50 (llvm is required for mesa-dri). > > That sound like "too much". I've 1408 ports installed, of which 90 > are named p5-*, and "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" shows only 32 ports. > > Did you rebuild everything along the build-dependencies, or does your > build tool use the run-depdendencies? > There had been a time when ports had way too many dependencies registered, > if my memory serves right that was because many build-dependencies were > recorded as run-dependencies (or there was no distinction at all). Is > that a leftover effect from those times? "Insufficient data, Captain." I followed the instructions for portmaster from UPDATING/20171103, only changing the version numbers. Running "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" now produces 13 items; this makes your explanation plausible, if not authoritative. Again, thanks. Robert Huff