From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 10 3:29:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AE537B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5ADA43EA9 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8372B968; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:29:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B1BF16A712B; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:29:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:29:16 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Lev Serebryakov Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reasons for USE_AUTOCONF/USE_AUTOMAKE usage? Message-ID: <20021210112916.GO50581@k7.mavetju> References: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:48:04PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, freebsd-ports! How are you? > > Why so many ports declare, that they use autoconf/automake, and, > via them, perl5? >> > Many programs compiles fine with bundled `configure'. and > `Makefile.in' files and could be compiled without any perl5! Is here A part of autoconf253 (actually, autom4te) is a perl-script, so a lot of ports have USE_PERL5=yes in their Makefile if they use autoconf. It wasn't until later that somebody thought there should be a difference between USE_PERL5_BUILD and _RUN, but a lot of the damage was done already. Further, a couple of ports use pod2man which is part of perl too. Edwin, back in the land of the living. -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message