Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 20:42:10 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> To: A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RUN_DEPENDS and USE_PERL5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970703204000.15440G-100000@nexis.net> In-Reply-To: <199707031023.DAA18135@palrel1.hp.com>
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On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, A Joseph Koshy wrote:
> If one is trying to install a P5- module (eg: p5-CGI_Lite), this
> causes the build to look for "/usr/ports/lang/perl5".
>
> Now this shouldn't be necessary, as Perl5 could have been installed
> and present in ${PREFIX}/bin/perl5.
The general argument for ports cooperating is that we can't cater to all
the different ways someone may have installed a prerequisite. All the
perl5 ports assume that the perl5 you have installed is the FreeBSD port
and therefore will be ${PREFIX}/bin/perl and ${PREFIX}/bin/perl5.00x_??
It would be nice to handle all the different situations a port may be
installed on top of, but at a certain point (and with more than 1000
ports, I think we've reached it) the permutations get out of hand.
--
j.
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