Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 00:32:34 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specifying perl dependencies in a port Message-ID: <20050804223234.GH26867@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <42F287DB.9050307@columbia.edu> References: <42F287DB.9050307@columbia.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:25:47PM -0400, Brent B. Powers wrote:
> I've a port that requires _either_ perl5 or perl5.8. This isn't a=20
> problem on FBSD5, but on 4.11, it appears that if I build the package=20
> on a system with 5.8, 5.8 is specified as a dependency, and if the=20
> package is build on a system with 5.6, 5.6 is set as a dependency.
>=20
> Is there a clean way to specify (on 4.11) that we require a 'modern' perl?
>=20
It depends on how you define "clean" :-)
> .if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600
> IGNORE=3D Requires perl 5.6 or better. Please install lang/perl5.8 and=
=20
> retry
> .endif
>=20
I wouldn't call this very clean, but this is the way to do it. Note that
the last part should read lang/perl5 not lang/perl5.8 if it also works
on perl 5.6.x.
Cheers,
-erwin
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Erwin Lansing
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