Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:25:06 +0200 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: gnn@freebsd.org Cc: perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Could you explain perllocal.pod issues? Message-ID: <20050624072506.GC98152@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <m2u0jo31dc.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> References: <m2u0jo31dc.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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Hi,
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:00:31PM +0900, gnn@freebsd.org wrote:
> Hi,
> > > > You marked the TAHI IPv6 conformance port as BROKEN due to:
> > > >
> > > > BROKEN= Installs perllocal.pod file
> > > >
> > > > As far as I can tell the newest version (3.0) does a >> into that
> > > > file, i.e. appends. Can you tell me more about this? I might want to
> > > > upgrade it.
> > >
> > > perllocal.pod should not be used at all by FreeBSD ports.
> > OK, I'm a bit clueless on this really, if you could spell out the
> > issue then I might be able to fix it.
> AFAIK the port should not be creating or touching perllocal.pod at
> all, because it is superfluous for FreeBSD ports and only exists to
> clutter the filesystem. You could check with the experts at
> perl@FreeBSD.org if you want more specific advice.
Unfortunately I cannot find the port you are talking about from this
description. That does not matter, though, I can use some assumptions.
:-)
The pure p5 ports have this issue handled automatically by this piece of
bsd.port.mk magic:
.if defined(PERL_CONFIGURE)
...
.if !defined(PERL_MODBUILD)
@cd ${CONFIGURE_WRKSRC} && \
${PERL5} -pi -e 's/ doc_(perl|site|\$$\(INSTALLDIRS\))_install$$//' Makefile
This fixes up Makefile generated from Makefile.PL in such a way so it
does not write to perllocal.pod any longer. (The actual substitution
removes suspect targets from the right hand side of make rules
everywhere, so that those targets are never built)
So there are two cases when this won't work:
1. We are dealing with a pure p5 port that uses Module::Build instead of
the usual Makefile.PL. I don't think this is the case; besides,
mat@ took care of that a couple of days ago, if I remember correctly.
2. We are dealing with a normal port (no PERL_CONFIGURE defined) that
has some Makefile.PL-using parts/subdirectories. In this case you
are supposed to perform a similar magic by hand - in the
post-configure phase.
Hope this helps,
\Anton.
--
The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. --
Jarkko Hietaniemi
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