Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:34:42 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@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 Message-ID: <199808100634.IAA09504@gratis.grondar.za>
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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
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