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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:27:43 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PERL_RUN_DEPENDS and PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS
Message-ID:  <20051012232743.GC1265@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20051012230710.GA88133@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20051012114222.GD1278@k7.mavetju> <434D0CFE.9090007@protey.ru> <20051012211228.GE1278@k7.mavetju> <20051012230710.GA88133@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:07:10PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:12:28AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:17:50PM +0400, Sergey Skvortsov wrote:
> > > >The syntax is:
> > > >    PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS=	MIME-Lite:${PORTSDIR}/mail/p5-MIME-Lite
> > > >It checks the for the existence of MIME::Lite with the "perl -e
> > > >'use MIME::Lite'" command.
> > > Obviously this approach will cause great performance degrade.
> > > stat(2) is much more faster than loading perl.
> > 
> > Minimal compared with the time it takes to fetch distfiles and to
> > build. That's the only time it is checked.
> 
> What about INDEX builds?

"make index" are multiple "make describe"s. A "make describe" is a
perl script with two extra variables: prdirs and pbdirs. The splitting
of PERL_RUN_DEPEND and PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS was first part of the
split of BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS.

Edwin

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